Wanting Something More Quotes

#1. There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there. - Author: Michelle Orange

#2. His gaze lingered on her mouth and she shuddered. God, he was beautiful. There was something deep in his slate-colored eyes - something stirring, soulful - and Cassandra found herself wanting to know more. - Author: Remy Landon

#3. But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like. - Author: Lukasz Gottwald

#4. You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough. - Author: Michelle Hodkin

#5. The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen. - Author: Kandi Steiner

#7. Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Author: Mona Simpson

#8. Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something? - Author: Joe Hill

#9. I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better. - Author: Halsey

#10. Let that be a lesson to you," chided Dixon. "Wanting or not wanting something to be so doesn't make is so--any more than repeating a lie makes it the truth. - Author: Patricia Reding

#11. I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish - her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#12. The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better. - Author: Anthony Liccione

#13. I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know. - Author: Barry McGuire

#14. When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules. - Author: Harmony Korine

#15. Then I did something really stupid, lifting my head I kissed him softly on his mouth,he in return took the kiss and kissed me back. I opened up, wanting more, and he complied. The moment our tongues touched, and I really tasted him, my world went spinning and hit full
supernova. - Author: Karen Swart

#16. She was stronger than Stew Mitchum, or maybe she just wanted something more than he did. - Author: Lemony Snicket

#17. I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. - Author: Dave Matthews

#18. Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#19. I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it. - Author: Grimes

#20. Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more. - Author: E.H. Gombrich

#21. But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more. - Author: Dan Stevens

#22. I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself. - Author: Sampha

#23. I could have argued that her wanting to do something for me meant she was ultimately acting in her own interests, but it might provoke more of the 'don't fuck with me' behaviour. - Author: Graeme Simsion

#24. You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you. - Author: Sandra Newman

#25. Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more. - Author: Patton Oswalt

#26. Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work. - Author: Tom Rath

#27. Every Time your lips touch mine the spark ignites anew, my want for more of you... - Author: Daleen Van Tonder

#28. I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with. - Author: David Hallberg

#29. It's a big shift. I don't know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of course it's a lot more than that too. Shock and aura. Things are stronger and brighter and I feel on the edge of something inexpressible. - Author: Donna Tartt

#30. I find something new in the Bible every time I read it ... that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God's truth. - Author: Billy Graham

#31. Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen. - Author: Brad Falchuk

#32. Furi was doing something indescribable to him. The gentle prods and figure eights Furi made with his tongue had Syn bucking his hips wanting way more, way deeper. - Author: A.E. Via

#33. More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you. - Author: Donna Tartt

#34. I feel okay now. And I don't want to rest." In reality, he was fucking exhausted, and his head ached like a bitch. But he needed something more than sleep. He needed her. He needed to feel her. To feel her needing him. Wanting him. - Author: Susan Fanetti

#35. Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor. - Author: Timothy Keller

#36. When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world. - Author: Jenny Hval

#37. And suddenly, I feel like crying, but not in a bad way. More like in the way you feel when someone gives you a perfect present - something you'd been wanting, but thought you couldn't ask for. It's that feeling of someone knowing you in all the ways you needed to be known. - Author: Becky Albertalli

#38. I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor. - Author: Steve Buscemi

#39. Wanting it for its beauty is not wanting to inspect it: it is wanting to contemplate it - and that is something more than a search for information or an expression of appetite. Here is a want without a goal: a desire that cannot be fulfilled since there is nothing that would count as its fulfilment. - Author: Roger Scruton

#40. There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that. - Author: Muriel Humphrey