What We Wanted Quotes

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

I didn't want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

You can't take life for granted. I am lucky to have everything I've ever wanted. I've got a beautiful wife, a job I've always dreamed of...and my face on my own t-shirts.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. “No more bullshit,” he said against her lips. “I want you. I think I’ve always wanted you.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!