As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

I drink when I want and how much I want. Sometimes I get in really bad states, but it doesn't cause me or anyone else any problems.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.

I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

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