Wanted Quotes · Page 86

My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be…

— Bootsy Collins

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Let us say that you wanted a romantic partner who is in a higher sate of mind, a nicer person. The reason…

— Frederick Lenz

I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good…

— Zeena Parkins

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

— Kathleen Hanna

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups,…

— Drew Houston

When I was a little boy, I didn't know what the Hall of Fame was. I was just playing the game of…

— Roberto Alomar

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

— Stone Gossard

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

— Steven Sebring

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found…

— Jens Lekman

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

— Amy Schumer

I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has…

— Warren Buffett

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type…

— Benjamin Booker

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why…

— Paul Oakenfold

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

— Martha Graham

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I…

— Marlee Matlin

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

— Narciso Rodriguez

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass…

— Sharon Gless

I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the…

— Arthur Bradford

I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum.

— Taika Waititi

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

— Pat Summitt

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

— Mike Lowry

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's…

— Seth Lloyd

I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

— Josh O'Connor

I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that…

— David Ayer

I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends.…

— Kiana Tom

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such…

— Gordon Wu

The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it…

— Ksenia Solo

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are…

— Brande Roderick

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was…

— Bitsie Tulloch

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and…

— Nancy Kerrigan

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were…

— Edward Gibbon

Pansy rolled over and went to sleep, but Petunia stayed awake long after Olga left, and long after Oliver crawled out from…

— Jessica Day George

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

— Camille Pissarro

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

— Anonymous

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted…

— Sebastian Vettel

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared…

— Ursula Andress