Top 100 Wanted Something Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I wanted a girl as perfect as Brooke, and instead, she gave me something I never knew I wanted: something perfect that looks like me.
Katy Evans
#3. I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred De Vigny
#4. That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had done it deliberately, probably because he wanted something from her.
Julia Quinn
#5. I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.
Wendy Brenner
#6. I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
Les Paul
#7. Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.
Siri Hustvedt
#8. Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.
Beverley Mitchell
#9. No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.
Emily Croy Barker
#10. Then why did you ask me?' it screamed.
'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin.
Douglas Adams
#11. For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated.
Bethany Mota
#12. I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
Danielle Dax
#13. I loved the feeling of discovery, of not knowing how much I wanted something until I had discovered its absence.
Roshani Chokshi
#14. But I do know I can't remember the last time I wanted something so much," he finished in a quiet voice.
Renee Ahdieh
#15. I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
David Alan Grier
#16. Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram.
E. M. Forster
#17. Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
Bill Gates
#18. It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
Caitlin Moran
#19. When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections.
Lisa Randall
#20. When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names ... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll ... something that acknowledged my ambition.
Billy Idol
#21. What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.
Michael Cunningham
#22. I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn't wake up, and nothing was said.
Jane Green
#23. I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I'm simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody.
Andrae Crouch
#24. Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that's the important part. And people often act stupidly when it comes to love. I know I
did.
Peter Cameron
#25. She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.
Kate Chopin
#26. You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.
Lucy Christopher
#27. I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
Busta Rhymes
#28. Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged.
Jeanette Winterson
#29. ....if you wanted something enough, you'd be willing to stand and fight for it, even if you got beat down.
Sam Crescent
#30. I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.
Dan McCurrigan
#31. The only time I felt a bit better was when some guy would chatme up over a drink or, we were having sex - because then I felt I was worth for something. Only then could I feel happy because somebody wanted something I had. To fill the emptiness inside my soul I filled the hole between my legs.
Rika Yokomori
#32. I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!
Dario Argento
#33. I wanted to get away. I wanted something of my own. I wanted to be someone's star.
Meg Howrey
#34. Have you wanted something so badly that you would have done anything to get it?" he mumbled, his muscly back still to me. "Like, the kind of want that leaves you on your knees and asking for someone, anyone, to answer your prayers?
Karina Halle
#35. I really wanted something, giving myself permission to screw up wasn't an option
Tara Kelly
#36. He wanted...something else. Something new. And maybe that put his heart at risk, but when Fitch looked at him like that, it made him think unicorns were real and they pooped rainbows. He
Elizabeth Varlet
#37. It seemed a tragedy to want nothing - and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was - some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#38. Maybe it wasn't about being alone. Maybe the answer wasn't about hiding from those who wanted something, but about finding those who needed help but would never considering asking.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#39. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
#40. I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.
Kevin Powers
#41. Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? [Wren]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Haven't you ever wanted something so bad that it becomes more than a want? I need to get out of this town. I need it like I need to breathe.
Alwyn Hamilton
#43. Obstacles are placed in our path to determine whether we really wanted something or just thought we did." Dr. Harold Smith
Suzie Grant
#44. Hanna, I don't know if I've ever wanted something more than I want you.
Christina Lauren
#45. If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
Patrick Swayze
#46. I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness.
Paul Theroux
#47. I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
Raha Moharrak
#48. I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'
John Patrick Shanley
#49. I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.
Jennifer Echols
#50. They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.
Ernest Hemingway,
#51. In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.
Isamu Noguchi
#52. The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.
John Petrucci
#53. I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
Katharine Graham
#54. It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.
Rufi Thorpe
#55. All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#56. When Cecily said she wanted something, it did not express an idle desire but an iron determination.
Cassandra Clare
#57. But the truth is far less interesting than any of these explanations. The truth is, I thought I wanted something, but it turns out I didn't. End of story. I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. And
Mark Manson
#58. Haven't you ever wanted something you couldn't have?
Tracy Guzeman
#59. Dreams are hard," he said. "You work toward them, struggle and sacrifice, but that doesn't always mean you will get there. I used to believe if I wanted something badly enough, I was destined to win it as long as I never gave up trying.
Elizabeth Camden
#60. He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.
Patrick Ness
#61. But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.
Stacia Kane
#62. Oh, Troy? He's no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give."
"Friends with benefits?" Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.
"More like frenemies with benefits.
Leslea Tash
#63. That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it.
Ronda Rousey
#64. The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
John Hume
#65. I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.
Billie Piper
#66. I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.
Phyllis Diller
#67. There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does
Natsuki Takaya
#68. I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
Etta James
#69. As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I've been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn't know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.
E.R. Wade
#70. I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.
Kevin Durant
#71. When Noah Crawford wanted something, you couldn't bat a lash around him or you were going to miss seeing how he got it. Not that I was complaining or anything.
C.L. Parker
#73. I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.
Paul Haggis
#74. if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.
Terry Brooks
#75. I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.
Mia Moretti
#76. I wanted something grand and sweeping."
"The kind of love you find in novels?"
"Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.
Paula McLain
#77. I'd once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.
Chigozie Obioma
#78. But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.
Thomas Hardy
#79. Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know
because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?"
"Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.
Lisa Kleypas
#81. I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!
Otto Von Bismarck
#82. The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.
Cheryl Strayed
#83. He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, when she'd still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn't be filled.
Cole McCade
#84. And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn't even made it to my wish list.
David Levithan
#85. We looked after her. But she wanted something else, something more, I don't know what. She didn't even want the kitten, although I would have fed it too. That was the limit. Why did she never stop whining? If someone can't be helped, then they don't want help.
Magda Szabo
#86. Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
Lorraine Heath
#87. My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.
Emmitt Smith
#88. She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.
Melissa Marr
#89. Like so many things Henry had wanted in life
like his father, his marriage, his life
it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.
Jamie Ford
#90. Yeah, it's you. It suits you. I wanted something to match your eyes, but I also wanted something that reflected your personality. Your vibrancy.
Maya Banks
#91. I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah.' And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.
John Baldessari
#92. I really wanted something that could make a statement about what we were doing and the life we were living in society, and the shows that push the boundaries, in those ways, are shows on cable, particularly networks like Showtime.
Josh Lawson
#93. I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
James Taylor
#94. Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#95. They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.
Melissa Joan Hart
#97. Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put into practice - and her eyes filled with tears. She had won fame and independence and the right to live her own life - and she wanted something different.
Virginia Woolf
#98. He was infamous, even at her school. You wanted something to get you through your exams, he had it. You wanted a fake license, he could get it. You wanted something to hurt you, he was it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#99. When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?
Robin Hobb
#100. I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
David Levithan
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