Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

Anna Quindlen

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Anna Quindlen

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

Claire Bloom

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Cindy Sherman

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

Claes Oldenburg

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

Cicely Tyson

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused

Chuck Yeager

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

Alfred Hitchcock

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Alfonso Cuaron

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

Andrew Garfield

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

Amy Schumer

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

Amy Sedaris

I swear I want to be a food model.

Amy Sedaris

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.

Amy Tan

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

Amy Tan

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

Amy Tan

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Anthony Burgess

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Andy Summers

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

Andy Samberg

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

Andy Rooney

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

Andy Rooney

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Andy Stanley

God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take you.

Andy Stanley

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

Andy Warhol

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.

David Tom

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

Jason Bay

He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.

He wants to win every four-on-four and every one-on-one in training,

Ron Gardenhire

He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.

He wants to play. But I don't think he's going to be able to. He's day to day.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.