Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Ôwî wan wær dîn schœne mîn!
dir hete got den wunsch gegebn,
ob du mit witzen soldest lebn.
Bk. 3, st. 124, line 18; p. 74.
Parzival
"I Wish"
I Wish, 1995
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Ôwî wan wær dîn schœne mîn!
dir hete got den wunsch gegebn,
ob du mit witzen soldest lebn.
Bk. 3, st. 124, line 18; p. 74.
Parzival
“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.”
Ann B. Davis (1926–2014) American actress
(Referring to her character on The Brady Bunch) in People magazine in 1992
“I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
On how his interest in mythology started, in an interview with Bookslut (October 2006)
Tucker Max (1975) Internet personality; blogger; author
The Tattoo Story http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_tattoo_story.phtml#997, <br class="br">The Tucker Max Stories
“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy
There were a few expensively bound and weirdly neutered bookazines here, but he knew from glancing through them that these were bland advertisements for being wealthy, wealthy and deeply, witheringly unimaginative.
Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Zero History (2010), Chapter 18, "140" (Milgrim in London)
“You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Source: Absolute Watchmen
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) English economist and logician
Reflections on his earlier life, written when he was 27 (December 1862), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 11.
Context: When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.