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Wants Quotes (page 58)

The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence. Friedrich Nietzsche
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I didn't want to kiss you goodbye, that was the trouble; I..."
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye, that was the trouble; I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there's a lot of difference. Ernest Hemingway
I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea. Ben Okri
Nora Ephron quote: "That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to..."
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. Nora Ephron
She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them. Edith Wharton
Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed Tad Williams
Ah! you are come, are you, Edgar Linton?' she said, with angry animation. 'You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never! I suppose we shall have plenty of lamentations now - I see we shall - but they can't keep me from my narrow home out yonder: my resting-place, where I'm bound before spring is over! There it is: not among the Lintons, mind, under the chapel-roof, but in the open air, with a head-stone; and you may please yourself whether... Emily Bronte
...cool and nonchalant, like none of this mattered anyway. Is that what guys really wanted? Or was it just what the girls thought the guys wanted? Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult quote: "I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to..."
I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not. Jodi Picoult
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day."Good."They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it? Ray Bradbury
He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well Avril Lavigne
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. Leonard Cohen
Spencer Tracy quote: "I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's."
I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Claridge's. Spencer Tracy
Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am I still one of them?) is life. All we want to believe in is the persistence and vitality of life. Faced with the choice between death and the merest hint of life, what scrap, what token wouldn't we cling to in order to keep that belief? A leaf? A single moist, green leaf? That will do, that will be enough. Graham Swift
Mark Twain quote: "Definition of a classic? something that everybody wants to..."
Definition of a classic? something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain

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