Wanted Quotes · Page 135

Thankfully, I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in CrossFit.

— Mat Fraser

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

— Deana Carter

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— Kali Uchis

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

— Gregory Hines

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

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Devon Monk

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

— Stephanie Zimbalist

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested…

— Joanna Newsom

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

— Bethany Cosentino

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that…

— Horace

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me…

— Wynn Bullock

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I…

— John Knowles

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something…

— Nicole Kidman

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

— Drew Carey

Hillary Clinton wanted the wall on the border. Hillary Clinton fought for the wall in 2006 or thereabouts. Now, she never gets…

— Donald Trump

I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole.…

— Ice Cube

They're the bigots and they're the intolerant ones. There is a way for them, if they wanted to convey a message to…

— Rush Limbaugh

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back…

— Gordon Parks

I wanted to be the best in the world and at 12 years-old I won my first big amateur contest called The…

— Christian Hosoi

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in…

— Pink

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.…

— Robertson Davies

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

— Nathan Lowell

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

— Kirk Franklin

I lined up with the Republicans because they were antitax, and I wanted to make a lot of money.

— Ed Schultz

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

— Charles de Lint

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

— Robert Lansing

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

— Dave Barry

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

— LeToya Luckett

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

— Michael Phelps

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

— Chris Hughes

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

— Robert Breault

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

— Jane Wagner

I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough.

— Tim Duncan

I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.

— Rico Nasty

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

— N'Golo Kante

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

— Anna Quindlen