Top 100 Want Something Quotes
#1. If you want something you have to will it into experience
Dominick Cruz
#2. People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.
Marilyn Manson
#3. When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Lorna Luft
#4. If you want something done right, just forget it.
Neil Peart
#5. You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'
Rihanna
#6. If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.
Heidi Klum
#8. When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.
James Gunn
#9. I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
Banks
#11. eople - even good, impressive people - always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want - not a result of wanting an impressive thing.
B.J. Novak
#12. A weight pressed on his heart. How could he want something and fear it so much at the same time?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#13. The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
Adrienne Rich
#14. When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.
Paulo Coelho
#15. If you want something different out of life, you need to try something different and change the rules a bit.
Trent Hamm
#16. Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.
Max Brooks
#17. So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is
we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.
Rush Limbaugh
#18. There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
Virginia Woolf
#19. For me, it really is about a dialogue. Life can be really isolating or terrifying or euphoric - it's all these things. And while I'm here I want to have an exchange. I want something to vibrate. And I want to be really stimulated ...
Shary Boyle
#20. A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
Woody Allen
#21. If you want something," Tomas had always said, "you have to take it. Because nobody's ever going to give it to you.
Morgan Rhodes
#22. Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
Lauren DeStefano
#23. When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.
Lisa Vidal
#24. When I look at you, I see something I really want. Something I need." All
Mia Asher
#25. If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.
Kenneth Cranham
#26. If you want something, you have to take it. Because nobody's ever going to give it to you. So we're going to take back what has been taken from us. Ad then we'l' create a better future for Paelsia. A better future for us all.
Morgan Rhodes
#27. Is it possible to want something so badly that you yearn for it and let it dominate your every thought, but at the same time it terrifies you and makes you tremble with fear at the very idea of it?
Cindy Vine
#28. The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.
Sam Hamill
#29. You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
#31. Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
Adam Jones
#32. When you want something desperately, the whole universe conspires to get you that thing.
Paulo Coelho
#33. I like what we're doing. I don't want something else right now; will you just focus on the dick in your hand?
Christina Lauren
#34. I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
Anne Lamott
#35. God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.
Jeff Miller
#36. It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.
Eric Dickerson
#38. It was just like him to convince people he didn't want something until he was sure he was going to get it.
Jonathan Darman
#39. Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.
Brie Larson
#41. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?
Carrie Ryan
#42. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
Steve Buscemi
#43. Sometimes just having someone understand how much you want something makes reality easier to bear. So
Adele Faber
#44. Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.
William J. Clinton
#45. Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.
Don DeLillo
#46. Taught me it's that life is short, and if you want something, you have to reach out with both hands and grip it tightly.
Belle Aurora
#47. It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are.
Donna Lynn Hope
#48. Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.
Marlon Brando
#49. Sometimes when you want something for so long, you lose interest when you finally get it. "I
Natavia Stewart
#50. Because in my experience, people who seem especially enamored of my appearance also want something out of me I don't want to give
Santino Hassell
#51. I think it's hard to see people clearly when your heart gets in the way. When you want something to be real, you look for proof instead of truth.
Kit Rocha
#52. When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
Paulo Coelho
#53. Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
Jackson Pearce
#54. I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.
William Orbit
#55. The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
Caitlin Moran
#56. I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn't think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn't hold it against them in the long run. We couldn't afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.
Kiera Cass
#57. It was just one night of drinking and chance. I'd known it at the moment I met him, which was surely why I was enchanted in the first place. Enchantment means to want something and also to know, somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren't going to get it.
Rachel Kushner
#58. Just like human life. You want something so bad you make it hard to get.
Robert B. Parker
#59. When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.
Hina Hashmi
#60. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Peter F. Drucker
#61. If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
Philip Pullman
#62. I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
Junot Diaz
#63. I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
Bret Easton Ellis
#65. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips
#66. If you want something to happen, you must make it happen, because if you really don't want it, it's not going to happen without you. You can't make other people do things for you. You can't wait for people to come and give it to you. You must go out and get it.
Olga Custodio
#67. Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.
Laura Resau
#68. And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.
Johnny Depp
#69. Customers always want something new
Steve Jobs
#70. I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
Picabo Street
#71. Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.
Tommy Hilfiger
#72. Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank
Chris Priestley
#73. and all you have is a memory, and when you desperately want something more than a memory, every memory you've got left seems perfect.
Eliza Andrews
#74. I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.
Mitch Hedberg
#75. For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.
Andrew Keen
#76. The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.
Maya Angelou
#77. When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#78. If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
Poppy Z. Brite
#79. Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it ... cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.
Daniel H. Wilson
#80. As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.
Helen Mirren
#81. Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
Parker Stevenson
#82. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to need it, to feel like you can't go on without it, only to have it dangled right in front of your face? That torture, that mental torment, is worse than any physical pain you may perceive, angel
J.M. Darhower
#83. When you walk into a store and you want to buy something, you give them cash and they sell it to you. But very often, you walk into our "store" and you want something - a credit card, maybe, or a loan - and very often the answer is "No," even if you're a large corporation.
Jamie Dimon
#84. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
Marilyn Manson
#85. People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#86. It was tangible and real, close enough to allow me to dream of moving back to North Carolina; on the other hand, it unfortunately made time slow down. Isn't that the way it always is when you really want something?
Nicholas Sparks
#87. The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.
Sun Myung Moon
#88. You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.
Calvin Coolidge
#90. I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.
Frank Spotnitz
#91. I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
T. Boone Pickens
#92. Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
Bo Bennett
#93. A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.
Ruzwana Bashir
#94. If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
Rudyard Kipling
#95. If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
R.J. Palacio
#96. Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.
Ann Coulter
#97. It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#98. I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that
Lucy Robinson
#99. If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
Jodi Picoult
#100. If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.
Gretchen Rubin
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