All I Wanted Was Quotes

#1. All I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I felt like laundry in a washing machine, when all I wanted was to be put on and become her favourite shirt.

Isabelle Ronin

#3. All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

Haruki Murakami

#4. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!

Donna Lynn Hope

#5. All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

Billy Collins

#6. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

Fiona Mountain

#7. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Lucas Till

#8. When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

Patti Smith

#9. Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. Had dreams of fancy cars and limos,
And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.

Erick Sermon

#11. I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

O. Winston Link

#12. When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

Dave Eggers

#13. All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie

#14. All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Edward Snowden

#15. When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

Diane Lane

#16. There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

Kim Kardashian

#17. All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.

Jessica Khoury

#18. Then she told me all about the bad place, and said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres, all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular

Mark Twain

#19. When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

Emanuel Steward

#20. It's not like that. If all i wanted was a whore, i could've taken my pick from the bimbos at school. Whether you like it or not, Dad, i'm in love with Miracle and i have every intention of marrying her if she'll have me.

M. Leighton

#21. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#22. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Rita Hayworth

#23. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

Charlotte Eriksson

#24. I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

M.C. Beaton

#25. I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.

Roger Maris

#26. All I wanted was eighteen holes of golf on Saturday afternoon, and instead I turned into Snow White with hair on my chest.

Stephen King

#27. In the end she just said ... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!

David Almond

#28. This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox.

Anthony Jeselnik

#29. I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#30. All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

Christina Dodd

#31. All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

John Banville

#32. It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.

Hannah Harrington

#33. It was difficult, but it was also rewarding. When you have a chance to see kids get better, everything makes it all worth it. All I wanted was to try to make a difference in my life and have a legacy in some way, but for something I had done in someone else's life.

Paul Brandt

#34. Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Joe Taslim

#35. I never could get close enough to you. In the months we were together, all I wanted was to love you more, to become part of you.

Bella Andre

#36. All I wanted was my money. Instead, I got you. You, the one person in the world I have to convince I'm charming, and on top of that I find out that my texts are annoying.

Rachel Higginson

#37. All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no love songs, and the sound of children's laughter is never, ever heard.

Hitomi Kanehara

#38. I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

Sally Brampton

#39. All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Jalal Talabani

#40. I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

Thurston Moore

#41. All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

Scott Spencer

#42. Angel!
I whirled round. 'No! Don't you Angel me, Marcus Cohen! You've treated me like dirt-suspicious ever sinds we met. Testing me is the final straw. You've never thought about how your behaviour affects me-not once. You never understood that all I wanted was to be allowed to love you.

Joss Stirling

#43. All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories.

Banana Yoshimoto

#44. In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.

Robert E. Howard

#45. All I wanted was to sit here forever, to listen to her voice and watch the expressions fly across her face, so much faster than I could analyze them.

Stephenie Meyer

#46. All I wanted was to put my arms around him and hold him close, tell him he didn't have to be like this anymore. He didn't have to live a life like this.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#47. I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again.

Jerry Stahl

#48. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children ... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Anne Sexton

#49. The last seven weeks have been crap without you. All I wanted was to talk to you, see you again Kiss you.

Kate Forster

#50. All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Christine Quinn

#51. All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Maurice Sendak

#52. By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

Darin Strauss

#53. But isn't it likely that everyone in this world ... has killed someone or other on their way to the top? ... All I wanted was a chance to be a man
and for that, one murder is enough.

Aravind Adiga

#54. I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Brooke Shields

#55. All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.

Julianne Moore

#56. All I wanted was to love him as much as possible in the limited time given to me.

Stephenie Meyer

#57. I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive.

Paula Stokes

#58. Damn, all I wanted was a drink of coffee and one little beignet. Coffee ... Daimons ... Coffee ... Daimons. (Talon)
I think in this case the Daimons better win. (Wulf)
Yeah, but it's chicory coffee. (Talon)
Talon wanting to be toasted by Acheron for failure to protect humans. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#59. Her emotional layers had the depth of a full symphony.
All I wanted was the bathe in her harmony.

Brodi Ashton

#60. At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

Jerry Stahl

#61. I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

Ian McEwan

#62. When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

Hermann Maier

#63. All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#64. All I wanted was to return to - to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst had happened, and the darkness was calm and quiet. It did not seem like a bad thing to fade into. But I wanted to go home.

Sarah J. Maas

#65. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#66. ...that's all I ever wanted back, to have a home, a family. All I wanted was clarity in my life. Something that made sense, something that I could hold onto, someone I could love without a doubt and be my home. Alex, you're my clarity. You. Are. My. Home.

M. Clarke

#67. C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all I wanted was you. All I thought about was you. Your smile, your laugh, your lips, and your eyes seemed to hold me captive."


~Tru~

J.L. Clayton

#68. All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything."
She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me."
"Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Gayle Forman

#69. Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.

Faith Hill

#70. All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Shin Kyung-sook

#71. Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.
Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time.

Martin Amis

#72. All I wanted was to share myself with him ... in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.

Jess C. Scott

#73. I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

Stan Lee

#74. All I wanted was to take a hot bath, to go to sleep, and to not wake up. EVER.

Andrea Cremer

#75. I've missed you, Jas. You have no idea," he continued, reaching toward me again but stopping short of touching me. "I thought about you every damn day. All I wanted was to get back to you and the clan. But mostly you. Always you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#76. Being young is hard. I was so isolated and alienated when I was young. All I wanted was a friend. I want the world to be different for young Auties than it was for me.

Jeanette Purkis

#77. Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

Ali Larter

#78. All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me

Miley Cyrus

#79. I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Matt Groening

#80. All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

Gaston Leroux

#81. By all rights I should be dead. No by all wrongs I should be dead. All I wanted was the world. I didn't know it would cost so much to get it.

Carroll Devine

#82. All I wanted was to follow my heart, but somehow along the way I lost my soul.

K.K. Allen

#83. My God, that woman was fucking sexy. She didn't even have to try, and all I wanted was to be all up in her business. Now that we were engaged that didn't sound like such a bastard thing to think.

Jamie McGuire

#84. All I wanted was sex. Just a little freaky sex, every now and then. When the fuck did it get so complicated?" he grumbled.

Stylo Fantome

#85. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Gaston Leroux

#86. You see, my buddies had a freedom I no longer had. All I wanted was to do something normal and skateboard with the guys, but i knew that if I went downstairs to join them it would create total chaos.

Justin Bieber

#87. All I wanted was humor and wisdom.

Anais Nin

#88. All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Ernst Haas

#89. My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.

Luke Appling

#90. When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

Michael Moorcock

#91. I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America ... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

#92. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#93. And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you.

Haruki Murakami

#94. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

Tess Gerritsen

#95. The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

Matt Mullenweg

#96. I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

Alice Hoffman

#97. All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

Hunter Hayes

#98. 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

#99. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

#100. One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Stacey D'Erasmo