Quotes About Wanted

#1. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

Lisa Bevere

#2. My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was scared that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

Stephen King

#3. A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#4. The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

George Lucas

#5. I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ...

Dawoud Bey

#6. Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

Lenny Abrahamson

#7. She said the wrong thing or sounded like a space alien with bad programming, when all she wanted was to be just like everyone else. I meant are you okay now,

Susan Mallery

#8. If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Zenna Henderson

#9. If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see.
But now it's awkward.

David Levithan

#10. I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.

Raul Labrador

#11. I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

#12. I imagined a book that was both written and curated. I wanted readers to see my research, to explore the archival mix, connect with the material, and draw their own conclusions.

Alexis Coe

#13. I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

Sadie Frost

#14. Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#15. But I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself

Jack Kerouac

#16. I wanted to speak my conscience and have it matter.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. I started dancing in my room ... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

Kyle Abraham

#18. This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Mel Brooks

#20. Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

Peter Stamm

#22. I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but ...
I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon.

Carolee Dean

#23. Because I wanted to keep you forever.' he whispers.
I drop his jaw and step back. 'You wanted to trap me?'
'Yes,' His eyes drop again.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#24. When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

Angelina Jolie

#25. A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Jenji Kohan

#26. had decided while she was in bed that she would never speak to her again. But she wanted Marnie to see her. She wanted her to look out of her window and see her down there on the staithe, and remember the mean, cruel thing she had done. If

Joan G. Robinson

#27. I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

Jim Lehrer

#28. I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

Rainey Qualley

#29. Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

Patricia Arquette

#30. Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to. ***

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.

Hannah Harrington

#32. I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

Mike Newell

#33. I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

Amity Gaige

#34. My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Joan Jett

#35. You were sent here to die. You were the one that was not needed, was not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back.

Rosamund Hodge

#36. I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

Mark Wahlberg

#37. I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

Hans Zimmer

#38. I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.

Rahki

#39. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That's when it clicked: she had asked me not to settle, to fight for the person I loved, and for the first time, I did what she expected of me. I had finally lived up to who she wanted me to be.

Jamie McGuire

#40. I just thought maybe if we wrote letters, we could talk about whatever we wanted.

Jasinda Wilder

#41. I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

Richard Branson

#42. I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

Casey Spooner

#43. It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

Harry Shum Jr.

#44. I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Lyle Lovett

#45. With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

Hee-seop Choi

#46. I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

Sky Ferreira

#47. Wow. You really know how to make a woman happy..."
"I have a night-eight percent success rate with always knowing what will make a woman happy," he said.
Lindsey chuckled softly. "And how do you quantify that?"
"Would you like to know," he said.
Nat wanted to know.

Jamie Farrell

#48. She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us.

Mina V. Esguerra

#49. Oh no. You wanted to be turned around and fucked like a bad girl. Now you'll say the bad words that go along with it. Tell me what you want.

Tessa Bailey

#50. When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there ... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

Jennifer Weiner

#51. By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

Miranda Hart

#52. I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

Chris Frantz

#53. I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Keanu Reeves

#54. In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

Molly Tarlov

#55. I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

Jon Crosby

#56. There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation").

Russell Shorto

#57. I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

Regina Doman

#58. It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Glenn Tipton

#59. She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen

Sondra Torres

#60. I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Steve Jobs

#61. What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.

Kurt Browning

#62. One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sal Mineo

#63. If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Clive Thompson

#64. I shook to my core, my soul curving around her protectively as my mind strove to determine the logical calculation that could make her mine. I wanted to be hers as much - more - than I wanted to possess her, when I knew damned well that neither was possible.

Tammara Webber

#65. Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.

David Pajo

#66. I liked her ... I really liked her. I wanted to protect her. I approached her in a gentle, playful manner, because she's so precious and I wanted to hold her in my arms because she's so carefree. She was my treasure.

Arina Tanemura

#67. Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

Gurinder Chadha

#68. I wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Michelle Tea

#69. They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

Margaret Atwood

#70. Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

Wil Wheaton

#71. I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Laurie Lee

#72. What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

Stephanie Perkins

#73. But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

G.K. Chesterton

#74. I've always wanted to go to the desert. It's so vast. Uncaring of the rest of the world. It's just there, no matter what else happens. Golden sands and towering rocks. Coyotes that roam the land, free.

Ted Dekker

#75. However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.

Richelle Mead

#76. You lit all these candles ... " She glanced at them, then back at him.
"I wanted it to be special."
"Any time we're naked in a bedroom together is special to me.

Laurann Dohner

#77. I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as I whispered that it would be okay, that she still had me, and I would never leave. Ant then I wanted to kick myself in the head for thinking that

Julie Kagawa

#78. I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

Paula McLain

#79. We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.

Don Bruns

#80. 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

Bobby Flay

#81. I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.

Jill Telford

#82. You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that.

Stacey T. Hunt

#83. Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

George Rogers Clark

#84. I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

Drake

#85. The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.

Srijita Sarkar

#86. I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

Sandi Toksvig

#87. Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Bruce Springsteen

#88. When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.

Kiley Dean

#89. I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.

Anne Meara

#90. Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn't exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#91. He loved her, wanted her, needed her, just as impossibly as she loved, wanted, needed him. Miraculos.

J.D. Robb

#92. People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

Joel Stein

#93. I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

Martina Mcbride

#94. I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

George Saunders

#95. I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

M.I.A.

#96. By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

Janet Evanovich

#97. I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

Scotty McCreery

#98. If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs,

Mira Grant

#99. How funny it was. The very thing that had broken her heart, now no longer wanted. A trick of time.

Robin Black

#100. He wanted Zane to feel that too, to have that assurance both physically and emotionally. He would do whatever he had to do to make sure that Zane knew he was his. He

Abigail Roux