Top 610 Wanting Quotes

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, ‘Yo, you should rap,’ and I was like, ‘No.’ You know, the label was tough for me. I’m a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

‘Homeward Bound.’ I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I’m traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.

The ideal feminist world shouldn’t be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn’t be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn’t have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don’t owe anyone an explanation.

I’ve just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

I didn’t want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention – wherever we went, we’d get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, ‘I’ll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.’ And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn’t something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.

Chinese people as consumers, while they’ve always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: ‘Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?’

I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn’t get a series until I was 23, which was ‘The West Wing.’

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

I’ve been singing since I was 16 because I love it – I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There’s a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What’s corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty – you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

I’ve always liked stories. I’m always reading, ever since I was a kid. I’ve always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

I grew up always wanting to be a part of ‘Idol,’ and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it’s given me the opportunities that I have now.

I didn’t look like Rihanna. I was a bit chubby. I had puppy fat. I had a moustache. I didn’t want to have lips; I didn’t want a bum. I grew out of it, but I feel like everyone went through that phase of wanting to be skinny.

Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

I’m torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what’s available, living in Brooklyn. I don’t have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs’ heads nearby.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn’t want a baby, and I still don’t. I wanted a dog.

It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

I don’t create from a place of me making art for art’s sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff… tangible things.

I’m the youngest of four, and I’m always the clown – making the jokes, wanting attention.

Adolescents show off. That’s another way of wanting to connect with people. It’s not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that’s what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die – if you are found wanting over a period of time, you’ve either got to change what you’re doing or find something else to do.

‘Drive’ came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, ‘You’ve always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.’ My ears just perked up.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

I don’t think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I’m certainly out there trying.

The Room’ has just been something that has spread for so many years in such an organic way because, it’s just people wanting to share it with their friends and take people to the theater to see it.

Everything we have today that’s cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

Any race I go into, I’ve always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

You’re younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

In our lives in a lot of ways it’s all about fake. You’ve got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

I’ve been wanting to sing for a long time. I’ve been singing all my life, and I’ve tried different record companies, but it seemed like – it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, ‘I’m gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.’

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It’s like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he’s been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I’ve grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

Since I was fifteen years of age, I have been wanting to go to the football World Cup.

I think people don’t often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It’s athletic and it’s hard. It’s not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I don’t see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.