I Want Quotes

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her.

If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

Every President wants to do right.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.