- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Wish Quotes
On wishing for more - understanding, time, and change.
Wishing shows up here in very different registers: a scientist wishing ordinary language could capture atomic structure, a wish that Israelis could witness daily life across the border firsthand, and a simple wish to take on more creative work. I Wish continues the theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.
- Practice
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.
- Proud
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
- Power
- |
- Nov 07, 2020