Wanted Quotes

12092 Wanted quotes by 6670 unique authors

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through… — Octavia Butler
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes… — Hunter S. Thompson
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis. — Ward Churchill
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my… — Dan Simmons
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed — Dan Simmons
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by… — Mavis Gallant
I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent… — Unknown Author
What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't… — Lorraine Hansberry
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted… — Robert Greene
If you win power, remember why you wanted it. — John Marston
We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. — C.S. Lewis
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid, — Carl Hiaasen
I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and… — Kay Granger
The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the… — Thomas Sowell
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. — Julie Christie
A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have… — William Hazlitt
I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape. — Steffi Graf
While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid. — Goran Ivanisevic
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that… — Edward Albee
There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something… — Zinedine Zidane
I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a… — Ronaldinho
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves. — Oskar Kokoschka

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