What We Wanted Quotes

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.

I wanted to better inform the world.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I just wanted to be a scientist

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

I said i was dying not that i wanted to live”

I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.