Wanted Quotes - Page 15

• I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Together, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

  David Bowie

  Power Of Music, Prove, Sustaining

  4 Copy quote

• Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Morning, Children

  4 Copy quote

• Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Greed, World

  6 Copy quote

• I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

  Diane Wakoski

  Writing, Interesting, Firsts

  Diane Wakoski (1974). “Trilogy: Coins & Coffins: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  Edie Falco

  Goal, Acting, My Time

  4 Copy quote

• I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

  Sara Sheridan

  Heart, Adventure, Ends

  Sara Sheridan (1998). “Truth or dare”, Random House (UK)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Consciousness

  15 Copy quote

• The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

  Aerin Lauder

  Interesting, Feelings, Scent

  7 Copy quote

• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Lonely, Believe

  37 Copy quote

• The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

  Robby Krieger

  Song, Crazy, Kids

  10 Copy quote

• I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

  Mary Oliver

  Alive, Littles, Knows

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Romantic, Dream, Wedding

  "Sinead O'Connor Jets to Las Vegas For a 'Proper Rock 'N' Roll Wedding'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 08, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

  Max Ehrmann

  Writing, Things In Life, Disease

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.4, Souvenir Press Ltd

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

  Lori Lansens

  Aunt, Voice, One Day

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Miles, Knows, Known

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.311, University of Missouri Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

  Michael Dell

  Running, Someday

  7 Copy quote

• Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

  Lorna Luft

  Making Changes, Force

  4 Copy quote

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, People, Dancing

  "Q&A with ‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany". BBC America Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

  Donald Johanson

  Facts, Asking The Right Questions, Answers

  7 Copy quote

• I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Rights, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?

  Bo Goldman

  Sleep, Hair, Forever

  8 Copy quote

• I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Views, Lenses, World

  11 Copy quote

• I’d always heard that when you truly love someone, you’re happy for them as long they’re happy. But that’s a lie. That’s higher-road bullshit. If you love someone so much, why the hell would you be happy to see them with anyone else? I didn’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

  Julie Murphy

  Crazy, Lying, Long

  4 Copy quote

• If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moon, Men, Given

  "Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century". Book by Krafft Arnold Ehricke, 1985.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source