Wanted Quotes · Page 56

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the…

— Khaled Hosseini

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from…

— Julian Schnabel

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any…

— Philip Pullman

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my…

— Armie Hammer

I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as…

— MC Serch

I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I…

— James Wolcott

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

— Dinah Shore

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really…

— Laura Prepon

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as…

— Richard Marshall

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

— James Joyce

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who…

— Bronwyn Bishop

The still small voice is wanted.

— William Cowper

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

— Cyndi Lauper

My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small,…

— Travis Rice

We wanted to be footballers, not part of some gang.

— Adama Traore

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

— Guido Palau

“There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.”

— Craig Groeschel

In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying…

— Gerard Butler

I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po

— Kristin Cashore

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My…

— Frank Oz

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a…

— James Iha

The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always…

— Johnny Cash

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make…

— Janet Jackson

I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted…

— Sune Rose Wagner

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write…

— Harry Knowles

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search…

— Steve Jobs

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel…

— Jo Nesbo

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

— Dan Levy

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got…

— Charlie Heaton

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

— Mark Kozelek

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things…

— Mitch Albom

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

— Alex Newell

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

— Edwin Moses

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

— Bikram Choudhury

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid…

— Mark Cuban

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

— Louise Rennison

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the…

— Michael Shannon

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John