300 Quotes on Want

• So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.

  Author: Jeff Zucker

• I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

  Author: David Zucker

• I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

  Author: David Zucker

• I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

  Author: David Zucker

• The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

  Author: David Zucker

• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  Author: David Zucker

• I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

  Author: John Zorn

• The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

  Author: Rob Zombie

• I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.

  Author: Rachel Zoe

• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

  Author: Johann Zimmermann

• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Author: Johann Zimmermann

• I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

  Author: Stephanie Zimbalist

• If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  Author: Xun Zi

• To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

  Author: Kong Zi

• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

  Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

  Author: Jamie Zawinski

• We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

• I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

  Author: Giuseppe Zangara

• And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.

  Author: Rick Yune

• Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

  Author: Cole Younger

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Author: Sean Young

• The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

  Author: Neil Young

• When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

  Author: Neil Young

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Author: Margaret Young

• Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

  Author: Margaret Young

• I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

  Author: Loretta Young

• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

  Author: Loretta Young

• If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

  Author: Loretta Young

• So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

  Author: James Young

• I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

  Author: Don Young

• We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

  Author: Don Young

• I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

  Author: Brigham Young

• To find people who don't want anything is rare.

  Author: Andrew Young

• Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

  Author: Susannah York

• I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

  Author: Dick York

• I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

  Author: Dick York

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  Author: Aaron Yoo

• I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

  Author: Chuck Yeager

• I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

  Author: Noah Wyle

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Author: Andrew Wyeth

• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Author: Fay Wray

• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Author: Mary Wortley

• Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

  Author: James Woods

• Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

  Author: James Woods

• I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

  Author: Jim Woodring

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

  Author: George Woodcock

• We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.

  Author: Sam Wood

• I always want to rock.

  Author: Ron Wood

• There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

  Author: Evan Wood

• I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  Author: Ed Wood

• Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I want to reach as many people as I can.

  Author: Lee Womack

• You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

  Author: Lee Womack

• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

  Author: Frank Wolf

• I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

  Author: Christa Wolf

• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

  Author: Shelley Winters

• There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

  Author: Michael Winterbottom

• I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

  Author: Kathleen Winsor

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Author: Kate Winslet

• It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

  Author: Kip Winger

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

  Author: Owen Wilson

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

  Author: John Wilson

• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

  Author: James Wilson

• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

  Author: Chill Wills

• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

  Author: Thomas Willis

• I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  Author: Walter Williams

• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  Author: Walter Williams

• I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

  Author: Venus Williams

• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  Author: Venus Williams

• Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

  Author: Treat Williams

• No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

  Author: Roy Williams

• In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

  Author: Roy Williams

• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Author: Roy Williams

• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Author: Robin Williams

• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

  Author: Ricky Williams

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  Author: Otis Williams

• You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

  Author: Montel Williams

• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

  Author: Kit Williams

• It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

  Author: Joe Williams

• I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

  Author: Jayson Williams

• Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?

  Author: Esther Williams

• If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

  Author: Brian Williams

• You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

  Author: Anthony Williams

• I missed that question on Alaska. I hear they want to make it a state now.

  Author: Anson Williams

• I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

  Author: Prince William

• I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

  Author: Prince William

• I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

  Author: Prince William

• We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

  Author: Prince William

• You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

  Author: Tom Wilkinson

• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• If you want it, you've got to give it.

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

  Author: Kim Wilde

• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  Author: Larry Wilcox

• I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

  Author: Katharine Whitehorn

• Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

  Author: Ron White

• I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

  Author: Meg White

• I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

  Author: Meg White

• Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

  Author: Mark White

• I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

  Author: Gilbert White

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  Author: Edmund White

• I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

  Author: Bryan White

• If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

  Author: Bryan White

• As an actor, 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. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

  Author: Deryck Whibley

• I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

  Author: Kim Weston

• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

  Author: Shane West

• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

  Author: Morris West

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  Author: Mae West

• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  Author: Jessamyn West

• If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Author: Allen West

• I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

  Author: Tom Wesselmann

• You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  Author: H. Wells

• I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

  Author: David Wells

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  Author: Orson Welles

• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  Author: Orson Welles

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

  Author: Paul Weller

• Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

  Author: Steven Weinberg

• Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

  Author: George Weinberg

• We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

  Author: George Weinberg

• You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

  Author: Cynthia Weil

• I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

  Author: Gene Ween

• We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

  Author: Gene Ween

• I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

  Author: Dean Ween

• Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

  Author: Chris Webber

• I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

  Author: Hugo Weaving

• I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

  Author: George Weah

• Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Author: Alan Watts

• We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

  Author: Doc Watson

• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  Author: Barry Watson

• I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

  Author: Jody Watley

• The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

  Author: Jody Watley

• There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

  Author: Jody Watley

• Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

  Author: Roger Waters

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