The Wanted Quotes

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.

I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.