Wanted Quotes · Page 114

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

— Peter Stamm

Im sorry I'm not perfect but you said you wanted a guy who can love you the way no one can

— Dyllan

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

— Lindsay Lohan

No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.

— Ian Mcewan

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out

— Donald Bradman

I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.

— Linda D. Thompson

“Was it because Jennifer Tilley wanted him to stop acting and focus on the family? ”

— Rudolf Kerkhoven

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one…

— Maile Meloy

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one,…

— John Otto

I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio.

— Mikis Theodorakis

“It's not easy, you know? To get the thing you want most in the world in the worst way possible.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I…

— Stephen Sondheim

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking,…

— JoBeth Williams

I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind.

— Stephanie Courtney

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to…

— Ben Stiller

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business.…

— Charles Duhigg

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life…

— Stephen King

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst…

— Miguel Syjuco

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually…

— Marisha Pessl

I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at…

— Lynda Barry

I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's…

— Olly Murs

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have…

— Margaret Atwood

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I…

— Peyton Manning

“You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany”

— Markus Zusak

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

— Jonathan Franzen

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

— Karen Hughes

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

“I would be her bad boy, if that’s what she wanted. If that’s what she needed.”

— Tammara Webber

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

— Matt Barr

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

— Joe Mauer

Like everything else in the league, you want to be wanted.

— Julius Randle

Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.

— Werner Herzog

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

— Gregory Hines

I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

— Kali Uchis

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

— Devon Monk

It's nice to be needed, it's even nicer to be wanted.

— Nishan Panwar

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

I've never wanted to be a liar because truth heals me.

— Kirk Franklin

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell