Wanted Quotes

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted.

I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.