I Want Quotes

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I get to thinking about my life, and it sometimes makes me want to make it interesting.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?