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I Wanted Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay…
- In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of…
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
- A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and…
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with…
- I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful…
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
- I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
- If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
- I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.
More I Wanted Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin
- There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but… — Alan Ball
- I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard