Wanted Quotes · Page 102

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

— Charles H. Townes

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

— Adriana Trigiani

Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

— Stephen Coonts

I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.

— Weyes Blood

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

— Emo Philips

I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true.

— Jeri Ryan

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

— Gilbert Gottfried

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that…

— David Douglas Duncan

“He wanted to drown in her and shout at the top of his lungs that she was his. It was always her,…

— T.E. Sivec

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I…

— James Lipton

I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm…

— Shura

“I’d fight for you, Julia. I’d get you everything you wanted. I’d give you everything you wanted.”

— Lauren Blakely

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

— Ray Kroc

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be…

— Damien Hirst

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a…

— Mary Oliver

Obviously the way that I talk and the way that I dress all has to do with the way that I was…

— Cody Johnson

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that…

— David Zindell

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy... if I scored two goals, I wanted…

— Gabriel Batistuta

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write…

— Stefan Heym

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What…

— Jodi Picoult

I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the…

— Guillermo Diaz

When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like,…

— Iman Shumpert

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

— Che Guevara

I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.

— Zal Batmanglij

We wanted to be footballers, not part of some gang.

— Adama Traore

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I wanted people to hear directly from me that I have been diagnosed with ALS.

— Stephen Hillenburg

“I wanted to let go, drop him, anything to get him out of my arms.”

— S.A. Bodeen

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

— Glen Campbell

Were not magnates you can't just stick to us when your not wanted.

— Kevin McCarty

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.

— Kyle

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

— Jim Carrey

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

— Magdalena Neuner

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

— Gabriel Mann

I have always wanted to play for Barca since I was a kid. I watched all their matches.

— Ousmane Dembele

“Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?”

— Liane Moriarty

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon