Top 100 All I Ever Wanted Quotes
#1. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.
Heather Anastasiu
#2. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#3. You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
Eddie Money
#4. Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you,
The weather's always fine;
For
There ain't no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine.
Aldous Huxley
#5. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
Paul Weller
#7. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.
Ai Yazawa
#8. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
Anne Lamott
#9. I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.
Emma Roberts
#10. He should have been everything I ever wanted because he truly was more than I deserved. But I'd settled all these years, looking for normal because I was afraid of greatness.
Amelia Gates
#11. I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
Jonathan Ive
#12. People say, 'What are your hobbies?' I say, 'I've been doing shows ever since I was a kid.' When I left college, all I wanted to be was a musical theater chick. I auditioned tons. It just didn't pan out.
Stephanie Courtney
#13. I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.
Noel Wells
#14. My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#15. Yes," she whispered against his mouth. "I'll be yours. And that makes you mine as well, you know. You ready for that?"
He grinned. "It's all I ever wanted.
Jill Shalvis
#16. I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
L.M. Montgomery
#17. All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney
#19. I realized that's all I've ever wanted. You're all I've ever wanted, Evangeline. I'm tired of pretending that's not true. I'm tired of thinking I can replace you with someone else. Anyone else. I'm tired of not being with you.
D.L. White
#20. All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that. ALBUS
John Tiffany
#21. All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.
LL Cool J
#22. They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be.
Megan Whalen Turner
#23. I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.
John Logan
#24. Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I'd ever wanted- someone to catch me.
Jillian Lauren
#25. Dear Aunt Loretta,
Thank you so much for the awesome pants!
How did you know I wanted that for Christmas?
I love the way the pants look on my legs!
All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants.
Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever!
Sincerely, Greg
Jeff Kinney
#26. To be your friend was all i ever wanted, to be your lover was all i ever dreamed.
Matt Trevitz
#27. Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
Jane Badler
#28. It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.
George Ezra
#29. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#30. Harold, Julia - are you kidding? There's nothing - nothing - I've ever wanted more. My whole life. I just never thought - He stopped; he was speaking in fragments. For a minute they were all quiet, and he was finally able to look at both of them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.
Kim Edwards
#32. I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.
Ross Macdonald
#33. To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.
Jenny Han
#34. Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
#35. Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#36. My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
Emma Thompson
#37. At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering realization that despite years of slowly killing myself, all I wanted, with more passion and ferocity than I'd ever wanted anything else in my entire life, was to live.
Kristen Johnston
#38. I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.
Tim Field
#39. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
Gavin O'Connor
#40. All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve Binchy
#41. In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.
Mare Winningham
#43. All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
Ozzy Osbourne
#44. you're all I ever wanted
and worth dying for too
Richard Siken
#45. You're everything I've ever wanted, everything I've ever needed. I want to love you forever - I want to be with you forever - I want you to want me forever because you're all I have ever wanted. I love you with my whole heart and I want to grow old with you.
Kimberly Knight
#46. You are all I've ever wanted," he said. "You are the whole of my heart.
Leigh Bardugo
#47. What I want is to be with you. That's what I want. It's all I've ever wanted.
J.A. Redmerski
#48. I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
David Talbot
#49. When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."
Zooey Deschanel
#50. To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.
James Corden
#51. All I ever wanted
Was to know that you were dreaming ...
Stevie Nicks
#52. I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
Paul Weller
#53. Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen thought. If you had loved him even for an instant, you would not have been in such unseemly haste to wed his brother. His crown was all you ever wanted. For
George R R Martin
#54. The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted
Ciaran Hinds
#55. All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.
Steve Kazee
#56. All I ever wanted and needed was love. Everyone had it, but me. What did I do to deserve -
Kaixo
#57. I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.
Scott Ian
#58. What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.
America Ferrera
#59. To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
Angelina Jolie
#60. There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem ... The crack in my life was the fact that I had everything I wanted, or could ever want - and when you have it all, boredom grows like a fungus, coating everything you own and everything you feel.
Neal Shusterman
#61. All I wanted - all I'd ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.
Sarah Dessen
#62. I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted ... leaving me broken hearted.
Chris Elam
#63. I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.
Carrie Ryan
#64. All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.
Kathryn Magendie
#65. I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn't ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.
Paula McLain
#66. I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
Cheryl Ladd
#67. All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.
Angela Johnson
#68. Baby, I love you, more than ever, more than anything in the fucking world. You are my world. And all I've ever wanted is for me to be yours.
Karina Halle
#69. I never asked to be the world's hero. All I ever wanted was to be yours.
Nicole Williams
#70. I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.
Mitch Hewer
#71. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.
Carolee Dean
#72. All I've ever wanted, since the day we met, was your trust. I want to be there for you, to help you, protect you. I can't do any of that the way I need to when you fight me and push me back.
Meredith Wild
#73. Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
Sarah Dessen
#74. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi
#75. Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.
Marilu Henner
#76. Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
Sarah Dessen
#77. All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.
Rick Ross
#78. All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.
Donna Alward
#79. You're not like anyone I've ever known. I want to be with you ... really be with you. Only you. I've never felt this way about anyone. And I know I sound like a freaking Hallmark card, but it's true. I've never wanted all the things I want to have when I'm with you.
Emma Chase
#80. Acting. It's the number one thing I love to do. That's why when people ask me what else I'd love to do, I have no answer - this is all I ever wanted to do.
Freddie Stroma
#81. He smells like Speed Stick, shampoo, and all I've ever wanted.
Sarah Tregay
#82. All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.
Eric Stonestreet
#83. I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.
Samantha Schutz
#84. All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you.
Truth Devour
#85. He had given me so much information, I wanted some time to absorb it all, but I didn't want to leave him. Not like this. Not ever, as long as I lived. Or until I had to get back on the case. Whichever came first.
Darynda Jones
#86. Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster
#87. Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.
Rosamund Hodge
#88. I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson
#89. Abby stared at me, her fingers going all grabby like she wanted to snatch the phone and save me. No girl had ever wanted to save me before. I glanced away, because her worried expression made me want to laugh, but when I wasn't looking at her, the thought of it made me want to kiss her.
Ophelia London
#90. Have you ever been - well, i mean, have you ever - really wanted someone ? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didnt matter ?
Kate Quinn
#91. I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.
Richard Flanagan
#93. All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people
John Peel
#94. Mom. Mom, I ... All I ever wanted was for you to smile at me. If you praised me just a little bit or touched my cheek ... you'd make me so happy, I would cry.
Sakura Tsukuba
#95. Better than I was, more than I am
And all of this happen by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free
Tim McGraw
#96. I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
Nate Ruess
#97. Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.
David Beckham
#98. That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle ... Be a professional wrestler.
Tommy Dreamer
#99. I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation ... I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.
Oprah Winfrey
#100. I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
Jonathan Hickman
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