I Want Quotes

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

Lord, I want to be your slave.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.