Wanted Quotes · Page 63

I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they…

— Patty Jenkins

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

— Frederick Soddy

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too,…

— Hee-seop Choi

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich…

— Jodi Picoult

Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the…

— Eddie Montgomery

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right…

— Pat Barker

There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted.

— Simone Elkeles

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual,…

— Sinead O'Connor

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible!…

— Anonymous

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

— Michael T. Flynn

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up…

— Glen Duncan

Everyone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already…

— Melanie Martinez

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided…

— Elizabeth Berkley

As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

— Charlie Rich

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very…

— Lexa Doig

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

— Terry Pratchett

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice…

— Donald Miller

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I…

— Steven Wright

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that…

— Jaco Pastorius

I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been…

— Rachael MacFarlane

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

— Nat Hentoff

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture…

— Rex Smith

All I want is all what my mother wanted for me when she raised me - to be happy. For that, I…

— Hayden Christensen

I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a…

— Mikhail Lermontov

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

— Anna Nicole Smith

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing…

— Howard Coble

Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to…

— John Medina

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been…

— Brendon Urie

I just had the fattest crush on Iron Man, and I wanted more Iron Man.

— Iman Vellani

I was really, really, really nervous when I got this role because I did feel it was important to make Alice [Cullen]…

— Ashley Greene

I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to…

— Jorie Graham

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

— Lola Kirke

There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in…

— Grant Teaff

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie

Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and…

— Andrea Gibson

This is what I wanted the business to be when I started it: a lot of black, a lot of luxurious materials,…

— Kenneth Cole

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could…

— David Pogue

He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The…

— Manny Laureano

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

— Katherine Heigl