Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

John Ashbery

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Joe Sacco

What is it you want? My reply, I want what I have.

Joe Swanberg

Am I doing the movie because I'm really excited about it and want to do it, or am I doing it because it seems like it's a big budget or something like that? It would still have to be the right thing, because my lifestyle's really cheap and I'm able to exist doing smaller movies, so if I'm able to do that, I'm happy to do that. But if something bigger came along that seems really cool, then that would be great.

Joe Namath

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

Jodi Picoult

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Jodi Picoult

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Jodi Picoult

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

Jodi Picoult

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Jodi Picoult

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.

Jodi Picoult

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Jodi Picoult

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Jodi Picoult

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Jodi Picoult

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

John Grisham

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Ken Thompson

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

Kenneth Oppel

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

Ken Follett

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

Ken Blanchard

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Kathy Griffin

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Keanu Reeves

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Keanu Reeves

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

Kristi Yamaguchi

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

Kristen Wiig

Don't do something just because someone else wants you to

Kristen Wiig

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

Kris Allen

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

Kirby Bliss Blanton

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

Oscar Niemeyer

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Oral Roberts

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

Oprah Winfrey

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it