Want Quotations

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

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

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

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

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

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?

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

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.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Not everyone can or wants to go straight.

I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

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

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.