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All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
I still don't think the world has seen the best Andre Ward. Initially, I just wanted to get in there and win.
When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.
The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.
'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.
As soon as I finished 'Doctor Foster,' I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.
I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.
The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.
I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.
I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.
...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.
The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.
We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.
Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown
I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.
I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella
This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that.
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.