What We Wanted Quotes

Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be near her.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath Briony bed, but no one wanted to know.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

I designed it, the tailors wanted the kilt as a high joint but I wanted mine low like a Jedi.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.

Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave

Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!

It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless

Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.