The thing is, when it came to men, I wasn't unrealistic. I…

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

— F. Sionil Jose

“When I came to men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because…

— Larry McMurtry

If I said I hate you, I just wanted you to be kind.

— Daniyal

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

— Dave Brubeck

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of…

— Ethel Waters

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I…

— Dhani Harrison

As a child I wanted to be a kind of hybrid of Ferris Beuller, Ace Ventura, Bette Midler, and Lucille Ball.

— Mae Martin

“God, am I like the rest after all?” — So he used to think starting awake at night — “Am I like the rest?”…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“... I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.”

— Dodie Smith

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not…

— Sally Field

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

— Susan Sontag

I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.

— Wendy Williams

“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald