What We Wanted Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.