Wanted Quotes
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
Ernest Cline
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I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.
George Foreman
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When I was in Class Four, I wanted to be an astronaut. I am still fascinated with the universe. I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was in Class Eight.
Rajkummar Rao
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The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
Ray Liotta
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Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
Claire Cook
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I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
Moira Kelly
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For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.
Judy Reyes
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I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.
William Quigley
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I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.
Charles Burnett
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I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.
Nicholas Sparks
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Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.
Keigo Higashino
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I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last.
Nicholas Sparks
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I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.
Boi-1da
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If you win power, remember why you wanted it.
John Marston
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the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
Sara Zarr
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I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.
Boots Riley
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I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I think that's pretty expected. I'm not sure Nile and I went in consciously not to make "Let's Dance." We just wanted to work together again.
David Bowie
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I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.
Bill Burr
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
Ernest Hemingway
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No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.
Scott Pelley
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I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
Michael Finley
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
Claude Lanzmann
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Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
Sheila Heti