Want Something Quotes (page 5)

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• saying
• people
• effort

So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids. Chuck Palahniuk

• lies
• bad
• thousand

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Jodi Picoult

• wishes
• universe
• true

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true. Paulo Coelho

• because
• something
• wants

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? James Patterson

• achievement
• universe
• help

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho

• true
• want
• be true

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host Stephenie Meyer

• stopping
• wanting
• soon

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. Andy Warhol

• stillness
• stills

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. Mark Haddon

• angry
• true
• lonely

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely... David Foster Wallace

• bad
• common sense
• enough

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• learning
• saying
• good

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap,... C. S. Lewis

• writing
• character
• forward

I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of story. I also want something with a definitive plot—you know, beginning, middle and end--that has forward motion. I don’t like series books that leave you hanging after you’ve finished a book and in my own fiction I try to make sure that there’s always an entry point for those who are new to the book as well as long-time readers. Charles de Lint

• look
• world
• enough

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around. Chuck Palahniuk

• achievement
• universe
• help

When you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it Paulo Coelho

• achievement
• universe
• help

When U want something, all the Universe conspires in helping U to achieve it Paulo Coelho