Wanted Quotes - Page 27

• I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

  Tom T. Hall

  Dirty, Writing, College

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• Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Future, Science, Space

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• CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Doe, Watches

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.

  James Stewart

  Friendship, Dog, Lying

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• You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mistake, Back Again, Ifs

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• I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

  Eric Burdon

  Suicide, Thinking, Way

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• Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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• But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

  Juan Marichal

  Team, Faces, Sandy

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• I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

  Mark Millar

  Writing, Adventure, Honest

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• I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

  Alanna Ubach

  Thinking, Want, Honest

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• At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Atheist, Growing Up, Men

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• In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

  Dennis Miller

  Years, Ice, Long

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Black And White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

  John Dykstra

  Photography, Stars, War

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• I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Kids, Age

  "Head master". www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ballet, Care, Too Much

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Justice, Lawyer, Court

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• Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

  Roger Taylor

  Journey, Together Again, Musical

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• They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Heart, Sick

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

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• We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

  Michael Phelps

  Swimming, Records, World

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• For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

  Gillian Flynn

  Cutting, Doctors, Names

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• I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cat

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• I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Moving, Numbers, Decision

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.182, Macmillan

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• I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

  Paul Gauguin

  Funny, Mistress, Fool

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.2, Routledge

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