Wanted Quotes · Page 208

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s…

— Stephen Kinzer

I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a…

— George Carlin

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be…

— Jonny Weston

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

— Jules Verne

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

— Pete Wentz

She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him…

— Jacquelyn Frank

Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease,…

— Sarah Zettel

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]…

— Martin Scorsese

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they…

— Lynn Shelton

Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I…

— Janette Rallison

I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were…

— Rose Leslie

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's…

— Alex Rodriguez

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made…

— Henry Petroski

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

— Jane Goodall

“Because I have never met anyone that I wanted in my life that way before. But you. I could make an exception…

— Krystal Sutherland

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl…

— Bethany Cosentino

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye…

— Frank Luntz

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This…

— Jodi Picoult

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it…

— Cakes da killa

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

— Diego Corrales

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I…

— Robby Krieger

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou…

— Lou Reed

Feeling wanted is the best feeling ever. Like when someone makes the effort to text you or call you or something.

— Anonymous

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat,…

— Harry Anderson

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world…

— Rip Torn

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted…

— John Stossel

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and…

— Kevin Drew

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

— Carrot Top

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

— Tom Anderson

I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided…

— John Carmack

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but…

— Cyhi the Prynce

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little…

— FKA twigs

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

— Amy Locane

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that…

— Irvine Welsh