„I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here“
— Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Lyrics, October (1981)
„If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.“
After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b
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„I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.“
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
— Alice Borchardt, buch The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
„I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.“
— Suzanne Collins American television writer and novelist 1962
„I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.“
— Libba Bray, buch The Sweet Far Thing
Quelle: The Sweet Far Thing
— Rembrandt van rijn Dutch 17th century painter and etcher 1606 - 1669
Quote of Rembrandt's letter, Nov/Dec. 1662, to buyer Don Antonio Ruffo from Messina, Sicily (location: RD, 1662/12, 509); as quoted in Rembrandt's Eyes, Simon Schama, Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, NEW YORK 1999, p. 591, & notes 32-36
Rembrant's reaction after complaints of Don Antonio Ruffo, dispatched through the Dutch consul in Messina, Jan van den Broeck, who was on his way to Amsterdam. Once there he was to inform Isaac Just (presumably the intermediary between Rembrandt and the Messina patrician), of the intense dissatisfaction at the work, which Don Ruffo had received. 'The Alexander', he complained, being unacceptably stitched together from four separate pieces, showed seams which were 'too horrible for words.'..g with so many defects.. (Don Ruffo already bought Rembrandt's painting Aristotle with a Bust of Homer c. 1655 and still existing: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_Aristotle_with_a_Bust_of_Homer_-_WGA19232.jpg, but 'The Alexander' of Rembrandt is lost).
1640 - 1670
„I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.“
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne British Whig statesman 1779 - 1848
Lloyd C. Sanders (ed.), Lord Melbourne's Papers (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889), p. xii
Attributed
„I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.“
— George Frideric Handel German, later British Baroque composer 1685 - 1759
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331.
In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
— Emily Brontë, buch Sturmhöhe
Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XII).
Variante: I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?
Quelle: Wuthering Heights (1847)
„I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.“
— Emily Brontë, buch Sturmhöhe
Quelle: Wuthering Heights
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
You Would Have Understood Me
„I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe American artist 1887 - 1986
„I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were“
— Sylvia Day, buch Bared to You
Quelle: Bared to You
„My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.“
— Holly Black, buch White Cat
Quelle: White Cat
„I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!“
— David Lloyd George Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863 - 1945
Speaking of landlords, quoted in Frances Stevenson's diary entry (17 December 1919), A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 193
Prime Minister
„I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.“
— A.A. Milne, buch Winnie-the-Pooh
Quelle: Winnie-the-Pooh
