What We Wanted Quotes

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

I just wanted somebody to tell me that I could sing.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'