“I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”

“Wherever you are tonight,
I wish you the best of everything, in the world.
And I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

“I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

“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 (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“I wish I could just project everything on the paper”

Patti Smith Just Kids

“I wish. I don’t know what I wish. That you were less I were more, perhaps. Yes, just possibly that’s it”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“I wish I were big.”

Gary Ross (1956) American film director

“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”

Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer