What We Wanted Quotes

A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

A voice that was never wanted has become a voice for so many people who don’t have one.

I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

All of my life I wanted be something. I guess now that I am, I don't want to be.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty."

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.