The Wanted Quotes

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. I wanted attention.

I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.

I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.