Best 1678 quotes in «wanted quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Comedy was all I ever wanted.

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

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.

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.

"Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

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

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

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

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.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They wanted to see all of his affluence, and he let them see it.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

ECW's legacy will be as the company who took all the mistfits that nobody else wanted, and created stars.