What We Wanted Quotes

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren’t even real. All I ever wanted was you.

I was going to get an abortion the other day. I totally wanted an abortion. And it turns out I was just thirsty.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.