Quotes on Want

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

Author: Aaliyah

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Author: Aaliyah

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

Author: Paula Abdul

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

Author: Peter Abrahams

I always want more.

Author: Alvin Ailey

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Author: Fred Allen

We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

Author: James Allen

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

Author: Rick Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Author: Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Author: Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Author: Woody Allen

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Author: Tori Amos

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

Author: Elena Anaya

We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.

Author: Bob Anderson

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Author: Sparky Anderson

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Author: Kofi Annan

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

Author: Phil Anselmo

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

Author: Stuart Appleby

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Author: Sergio Aragones

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

Author: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Author: Mary Ash

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

Author: Les Aspin

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Author: W. Auden

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Author: Jean Auel

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

Author: Tracy Austin

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

Author: Sebastian Bach

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Author: Kevin Bacon

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Author: David Bailey

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

Author: Nicholson Baker

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

Author: Robert Bakker

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Author: Christian Bale

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Author: Lucille Ball

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Author: Toni Bambara

I want to be a writer someday.

Author: Andrea Barber

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

Author: Drew Barrymore

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Author: Cecil Beaton

I didn't want to do something typical.

Author: Beck

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Author: David Beckham

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

Author: Kristen Bell

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

Author: Monica Bellucci

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Author: Jack Benny

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Author: Anna Benson

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Author: Xander Berkeley

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Author: Irving Berlin

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Author: Al Bernstein

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

Author: Jan Berry

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

Author: John Berryman

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Author: Gary Bettman

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Author: Jeff Bezos

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Author: Jeff Bezos

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Author: Juliette Binoche

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Author: Larry Bird

I always write the pieces I want to write.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Author: Bjork

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

Author: Alexis Bledel

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

Author: Lindy Boggs

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.

Author: Bobby Bonilla

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Author: Nelson Boswell

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Author: Caprice Bourret

You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.

Author: Caprice Bourret

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Author: David Bowie

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

Author: Brandon Boyd

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Author: Stewart Brand

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

Author: Sergey Brin

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Author: Charles Bronson

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

Author: Garth Brooks

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Author: Terry Brooks

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Author: Louise Brown

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Author: Dick Bruna

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.

Author: Frank Bruno

I dont want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Author: Kobe Bryant

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Author: Peabo Bryson

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

Author: Young Buck

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Author: Bill Budge

I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!

Author: Brooke Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Author: Edmund Burke

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Author: Carter Burwell

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

Author: Geezer Butler

They want to create rather than decimate.

Author: Paul Butterfield

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

Author: Nicolas Cage

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

Author: John Cale

Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?

Author: Roberto Calvi

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.

Author: Kirk Cameron

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

Author: Roy Campanella

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

Author: Eddie Campbell

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

Author: Luther Campbell

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

Author: Frank Capra

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Author: Dale Carnegie

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Author: Dale Carnegie

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

Author: Allan Carr

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

Author: Jim Carrey

I just want to be myself.

Author: Jim Carrey

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

Author: Frank Carson

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

Author: Betty Carter

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Author: Dick Cavett

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

Author: Neil Cavuto

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

Author: Mark Chapman

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Author: Cher

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

Author: Michael Chertoff

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

Author: Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Author: Morris Chestnut

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

Author: Helena Christensen

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

Author: Roberto Clemente

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

Author: Nick Clooney

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

Author: Joel Coen

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Author: Joel Coen

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Author: Robert Collier

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Author: Confucius

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

Author: Sean Connery

I want to try everything.

Author: Rachael Cook

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Author: Chris Cooper

But the working I would always want to do.

Author: Jackie Cooper

I just want to do cool stuff.

Author: Rob Corddry

I want to manufacture a feud.

Author: Rob Corddry

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Author: Bill Cosby

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

Author: Kevin Costner

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Author: Doug Coupland

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

Author: Tom Courtenay

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

Author: Ronny Cox

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Author: Joan Crawford

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

Author: David Cronenberg

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

Author: Jon Crosby

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

Author: David Cross

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

Author: Sheryl Crow

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Author: Johan Cruijff

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

Author: Michael Cunningham

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

Author: Elisha Cuthbert

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

Author: Miley Cyrus

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Author: Bill Dana

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Author: Godfried Danneels

I don't want to be able to see the audience.

Author: Bobby Darin

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

Author: James Darren

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

Author: Peter Davies

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Author: Robertson Davies