Wanted Quotes · Page 428

Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of…

— Nick Hornby

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

— Katey Sagal

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

— Richard O'Brien

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom…

— Saina Nehwal

Because there are so many factors when considering the potential impacts of GMOs on our health and environment, we wanted to make…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted…

— Camille Grammer

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is…

— Jeffrey Donovan

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had…

— Benjamin E. Mays

if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a…

— Marilyn Manson

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to…

— Ruth Wilson

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

— Ronnie James Dio

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

— Martin Seligman

I know what it's like being with a major label. But I've always wanted to do things differently. And when I found…

— Michael Angelo Batio

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it…

— Kyle Abraham

There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime…

— Rand Paul

Before I was in Girls Aloud, I wanted to be a nanny. But then Girls Aloud started and that ruined that dream!

— Nadine Coyle

During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a…

— Darin Erstad

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

— Abebe Bikila

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

— Keith Richards

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come…

— Miriam Makeba

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish…

— Steven Spielberg

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available…

— Jane Hirshfield

I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner.…

— Mitch Hedberg

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to…

— Rhea Seehorn

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have…

— Bat for Lashes

The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency…

— Jill Stein

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

— Kirsten Dunst

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would…

— Philippa Gregory

There is nothing I've wanted more, or waited for longer, than to be a father.

— Greg Berlanti

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

— Sylvia Plath

I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.

— Mike Ashley

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

— Arlene Dahl

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices…

— Norah Jones

I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.

— Jillian Hervey

Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly.…

— Keith Olbermann

When I set in my mind I wanted the world championship in jiu-jitsu, I got it three times.

— Fabricio Werdum