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Wants Quotes (page 70)

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything. Sylvia Plath
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. Nick Hornby
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. A. A. Milne
I can answer that only by hearsay," returned the Guide, "for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the... C. S. Lewis
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~ Gore Vidal
I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it will be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen beauty lovely because of the danger which works away at it overwhelms it undermines it. Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly or slowly but I shall dare what must be dared. I shall destroy appearances the casings will burn away and one evening I shall appear there in the palm of your hand... Jean Genet
Orhan Pamuk quote: "I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning. Orhan Pamuk
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he..."
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'. Vincent Van Gogh
So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman Charlaine Harris
Carrie Fisher quote: "I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art."
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art. Carrie Fisher
Joy is like sex? it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap. Paulo Coelho
Joseph Gordon-Levitt quote: "When I was Younger, I wanted to be something. Now, I just want..."
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something. Now, I just want to be younger. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We both wanted money. Immense necessity! Universal want! Is there a civilised human being who does not feel for us? How insensible must that man be! Or how rich! Wilkie Collins
Oscar Wilde quote: "A man wants to be a woman's first love, a woman wants to be..."
A man wants to be a woman's first love, a woman wants to be his last. Oscar Wilde
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait. Erich Maria Remarque

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