Wanted Quotes · Page 118

I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.

— Christian Hosoi

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

— Kris Allen

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

— Yancy Butler

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

— Cornelia Funke

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.

— Tracy Anderson

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

— Anonymous

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

— Rita Rudner

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

— Brady Anderson

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was…

— Patrick Dempsey

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years…

— Kent Haruf

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not…

— Tessanne Chin

I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the…

— Charlie Finley

I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to…

— Melanie Martinez

I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country,…

— Brian Froud

I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the…

— Ice T

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age,…

— Diana Nyad

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon…

— Calvin Coolidge

I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them…

— Kevin Drew

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was…

— Christopher Hitchens

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays.…

— Allan Ray

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker…

— Rebecca Miller

Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I…

— Corey Feldman

We wanted our children to have as normal a life as we could.

— Archie Manning

When I played, I always wanted to attack. This is my philosophy.

— Roberto Mancini

I buy myself a gift every year, so this year I bought everything I wanted.

— Kim Kardashian

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms...

— Anna Akhmatova

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

— Haile Gebrselassie

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.

— Chuka Umunna

I never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.

— Red Gerard

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN,

— Milo Ventimiglia

“I wanted you to understand right away how committed I am to you...That you are the only one”

— Chelsea Cain

I think I was super young when I decided I wanted to be in music and be a singer.

— Ava Max

“Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.”

— Poppet

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

— Joan Didion

Varun Dhawan and I wanted to collaborate for a very long time.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

— Erin Morgenstern

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

— Mitch Gaylord

No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other.

— Franz Beckenbauer