Wanted Quotes · Page 452

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

— Diane von Furstenberg

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the…

— Big Sean

I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life…

— Jillian Hervey

I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before…

— Brad Thor

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

— Maggie Stiefvater

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for…

— Lilla Crawford

I never had everything I wanted, but I never wanted for anything.

— Lena Waithe

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to…

— Edgar Dale

In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of…

— Gao Xingjian

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men…

— Gena Showalter

Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for…

— Richelle Mead

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted…

— Nick Rahall

We created our life, we envisioned it. We wanted to be on top of the Billboard charts, we wanted to be touring…

— Sky Blu

I was taught that you could do anything if you wanted it badly enough.

— Wally Funk

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 wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.…

— Sam Shepard

I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that…

— Barry Manilow

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do.…

— Ben Shahn

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

— Paul Weller

I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

— Christine and the Queens

My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,…

— Rufus Wainwright

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

— Celeste Ng

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted…

— Rumi

I always wanted to have an imprint on boxing and help up-and-coming fighters.

— Shane Mosley

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my…

— Steven Tyler

I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there…

— Malina Suliman

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that.…

— Glenn Branca

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

— Honore de Balzac

Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But…

— Porochista Khakpour

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke…

— Jennifer Weiner

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you…

— Sean Patrick Thomas

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

— Amy Hempel

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it.…

— Luke Pasqualino