Best 1678 quotes in «wanted quotes» category

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts...'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's...everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be...a great gig.'

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Comedy was all I ever wanted.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do's and don'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.