No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate)

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

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

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

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