Wanted Quotes · Page 197

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick...

— Darynda Jones

I swear, all we ever wanted to do was tour outside of Florida.

— Chad Gilbert

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

— Vince Young

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

— Metro Boomin

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

— Grace Gummer

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

— George Whitman

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

— Drew Barrymore

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

“I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for…

— Blake Crouch

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be…

— Isabel Allende

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear…

— Jo Nesbo

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a…

— Quinton Aaron

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

— Isaac Rosenberg

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

— Arbaaz Khan

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an…

— Pawan Kalyan

I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside…

— Loretta Napoleoni

When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly…

— Lana Parrilla

I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in,…

— Julie Benz

It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the…

— Ian Mcewan

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The whole first movie [Twilight] was pretty fun. I had never really done a movie like it, when there's such a big…

— Robert Pattinson

I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me…

— Andy Daly

My dad always wanted me to box because he saw a career in it for me.

— Buster Douglas

I did stand-up for fun as I wanted to do something that was scary.

— Richa Chadha

“You are everything I ever could have wanted— everything I didn’t even know I wanted.”

— Suzanne Wright

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Ajax wanted me to be a part of their first team.

— Davinson Sanchez

I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

— Aarti Sequeira

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

— Kaytranada

Thank you. You accepted me for who I am; not who you wanted me to be.

— Anonymous

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

— Stephen Sondheim

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

— Lewis Black

I grew into who I always wanted to be as a drag entertainer and performer.

— Shangela

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

— Steffi Graf

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

— Ding Ling