She wanted me for you.

I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than…

— Danica Patrick

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

— Chord Overstreet

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

— Gerry Cooney

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

— Anais Nin

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

— Anthony Jeselnik

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

— Marion Jones

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to…

— Gaylord Perry

She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to…

— Sharon Shinn

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren”

— George R.R. Martin

I wanted to start playing as soon as I turned 18.

— Victor Osimhen

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso