Wanted Quotes · Page 24

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but…

— Elizabeth Reaser

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else,…

— David Bowie

I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang…

— Maggie Stiefvater

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I…

— Richelle Mead

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

— Sandi Toksvig

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

— Diane Warren

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them…

— Rush Limbaugh

I did exactly what I wanted to do. It was always my intention to put a band together and be a band…

— Chris Daughtry

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to…

— Howie Carr

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her…

— Nora Roberts

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting…

— Richard Bach

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just…

— Tablo

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

— Zach Galifianakis

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest…

— Mike Tyson

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning…

— Mark Haddon

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

— Donna Leon

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top…

— Wayne Kramer

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started…

— Cyndi Lauper

Musalia [Mudavadi] has a much weaker character in person than [Musikari] Kombo, and you know the joke about humble Luhya servants as…

— Raila Odinga

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

— Tinie Tempah

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

— Brian Eno

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted…

— Donald Johanson

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to…

— David Nicholls

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

— Mary Martin