The Wanted Quotes

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

I just wanted to let you know that I feel very lucky to have you in my life.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.