Wanted Quotes
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Charles Dickens
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To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
Richie Ashburn
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I wanted to join a company where I woke up every morning and felt happy : I wanted to build a better solution to deliver happiness to the WebEx customers, that's it.
Eric Yuan
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.
Rick Rubin
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I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.
Mordicai Gerstein
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I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
Mike Stoller
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I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
Rick Baker
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That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.
Nell Zink
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I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].
Erin Cressida Wilson
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New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
Michael Arad
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
Michael Apted
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I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.
Edwyn Collins
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I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38
Sarah Dessen
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When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.
Haruki Murakami
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I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
Virginia Madsen
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I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.
Ernie Banks
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I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.
Teju Cole
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Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.
Mother Teresa
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I wanted just one thing – to disappear.
Edith Södergran
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I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.
Serena Williams