Top 100 I Want To Be Quotes
#1. Maximilian Kolbe : (1894-1941), what an amazing life! A role model to me and to millions of people around the world. He wanted to be one of the greatest saints in the world. I want to be "A gift from God to Mankind", the meaning of my first name : Teddy.
Teddy Crispin
#2. He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. "I didn't ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and it's stayed with me ever since. I want to be with you. I need to be with you." His tone was both angry and helpless.
Scott Speer
#3. I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.
Justin Verlander
#4. I don't want to look ravishing. I want to BE ravished.
Lisa M. Owens
#6. I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.
Chuck Klosterman
#7. When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.
Faith Hill
#9. I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent projects as well, and being on a successful TV show allows you to do some other things.
Spencer Grammer
#10. I want to surrender myself to you completely, Livy. I want to be yours. You are my perfect.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#11. I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#12. I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, and I'd think, 'I want to be a legend like that.'
Holly Holm
#14. I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.
Michael Eric Dyson
#15. I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.
Keith Stanfield
#17. Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about pop music again, whether I like it because I'm unhappy, or whether I'm unhappy because I like.
Nick Hornby
#18. I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.
Nicholas Sparks
#19. I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it's really quite tight.
Eddie Izzard
#20. If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
Imogen Heap
#21. You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
Roni Horn
#22. I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.
Mat Johnson
#23. I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."
Charlyne Yi
#24. Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.
Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?
Toba Beta
#26. I want to be able to feel you," he whispers, his words at my ear. "I want your skin against mine." His gentle hands move down my body. "Gosh, you're so soft," he says, his voice husky with emotion.
Tahereh Mafi
#27. I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
Richard Virenque
#28. To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.
Steve Garvey
#29. I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
Gail Simmons
#31. The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. Please," she begged, kissing me again, reaching for my other hand and trying to pull it around her. "I want to be with you so much it's making it hard to breathe.
Christina Lauren
#33. I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
Ruth Rendell
#35. The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: 'I want to be.' It was always: 'I am.'
June Squibb
#36. I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good' and 'bad', and limit my vision. If I used the term 'good' on a thing I'd lose my license to inspect it, because there might be bad in it. Don't you see? I want to be able to look at the whole thing.
John Steinbeck
#37. You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing
Leigh Bardugo
#38. I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.
Ronda Rousey
#39. Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
Karisma Kapoor
#40. I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning
#41. I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.
Danny Brown
#42. I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.
Rainbow Rowell
#43. I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.
Justin Chon
#44. Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.
Aino Jawo
#45. I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.
Mario Balotelli
#46. I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
Tori Spelling
#47. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.
Joan Rivers
#48. I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.
Elizabeth Warren
#49. I want to behave more like a boy ... I want to be the strong one.
Cara Delevingne
#50. We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.
Kim Clijsters
#51. Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door.
Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch
" he commanded.
"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife
" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury
"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more
William Goldman
#52. The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.
James Walsh
#53. I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
Jamie Foxx
#54. I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
Tony Parker
#55. The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus
#56. I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Jim Cole
#57. I'm not such a fan of the concept of social media, though I don't have anything against it. I still love to call the people I want to be friends with.
Nina Hoss
#58. Just make sure Casey knows that I wear my alleged vagina with pride, not because she took my manhood with that purse of hers, but because I want to be a better man for you.
Katie Ashley
#59. People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'
Jon Scieszka
#60. I'll think about going (to yoga). But I'm not sure I want to be that relaxed. I am who I am and I might not do so well as a relaxed person.
Nina Stibbe
#61. I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose ... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
Yael Grobglas
#62. I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.
Christine Quinn
#63. My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.
Melissa Rosenberg
#64. I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler
#65. I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.
Megan Fox
#66. I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.
Christopher Nolan
#67. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
Kelly Slater
#68. The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
#69. I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
Park Geun-hye
#70. Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
Suzy Favor Hamilton
#71. I don't want him to stop. I want to be his. I want to be his everything. I want him to take me, and make me, and use me, and abuse me, because he thinks he has control and I know now that's what he craves.
J.M. Darhower
#72. I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
Dhani Jones
#73. I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.
Luke Benward
#74. If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Stefan Edberg
#75. I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.
Michelle Yeoh
#76. I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say ... eh, that's Josh Lucas.
Josh Lucas
#77. I love to write and I assure you I write regularly ... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J.D. Salinger
#78. I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.
Munia Khan
#79. If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me - no good.
Aldous Huxley
#80. Maggie. When we make love, I want it to be special. Not some quickie in your bedroom before your parents come home. I want more than that for us. I want to be able to hold you all night and feel you against me as I fall asleep. I want us to be perfect together.
A Meredith Walters
#81. Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula
#82. If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
Caroline Paul
#83. Everything has changed since I met you. I thought I knew who I was, what I was, but being with you, I've learned about the kind of man I want to be.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#84. - I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.
Candace Bushnell
#85. The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
Scott Peters
#86. I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.
Laurel Nakadate
#88. I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#89. I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..
Ai Yazawa
#90. I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
Quentin Blake
#91. I choose to be the person that i want to be
James Frey
#92. It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.
Brene Brown
#93. But I want to be your only source of romantic situations from this point forward.
Penny Reid
#94. I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
Ziggy Marley
#95. I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google; reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.
George W. Bush
#96. I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
Ivanka Trump
#98. I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#99. I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.
Ann Cleeves
