Air Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked…

— Scott Raab

I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a very expensive…

— Bhumi Pednekar

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off.…

— Sherman Hemsley

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me…

— Georg Solti

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I…

— Cicely Tyson

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the…

— Claude Monet

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

— Fairfield Porter

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint…

— Claude Monet

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead…

— Carol Ross Barney

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it…

— O. Henry

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper