I Want Quotes

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I don't care who wins, I'll fight either one of them. As a matter of fact, I'll fight them both on the same night if they want.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.

You never have to get up at 6 am, if you don't want to get up at 6 am.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.