Wanted Quotes · Page 108

“They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.”

— Connie Willis

I wanted to get in the ring and be like Muhammad Ali.

— Bonnie Canino

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

— Mike Shannon

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

— Steve Bannon

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

— Billy Bob Thornton

If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.

— Kristin Cashore

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

— Marie Lu

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of…

— Bill Shankly

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

— Theodore Dreiser

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I…

— Tracy Chevalier

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence…

— Ashton Kutcher

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I…

— Thom Yorke

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious…

— Lyle Lovett

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know…

— Sam Levenson

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how…

— Carl Hiaasen

When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary…

— R. L. Stine

Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to…

— Jack Davenport

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it…

— Terry Pratchett

Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?…

— Haven Kimmel

The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have…

— Frank Robinson

My father was a Muslim immigrant; when Donald Trump started talking about banning Muslim immigrants from this country, I grew my beard…

— Andrew Aydin

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous

I didn't give a damn if I went double copper, I just wanted to be a part of So So Def.

— Da Brat

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

— Michael Caine

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

— Ruta Sepetys

I'm a big fan of Kumar Sanu and I wanted to revisit one of his numbers.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

— Leighton Meester

I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

— Joey Comeau

I just wanted to settle down properly in my 50s.

— Amanda Redman

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

— Joe Mauer

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

— Ciaran Hinds

I have always wanted to work with Rajshri Productions.

— Mohan Joshi

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

— O. Winston Link

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.

— Bo Derek

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

— Hank Williams III

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

— Sergei Polunin

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

— Ramandeep Singh

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

— Tom Heinsohn