Wanted Quotes

If the roads are in trouble, if bridges are in trouble, and if schools are in trouble, it's because somebody in Washington wanted to pay for something else.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I always wanted to box.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

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

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.