Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

Henry Van Dyke

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Jorja Fox

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

Jorge Posada

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

Jordan Peele

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

Jonny Lee Miller

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

Jonny Lang

I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

Jonathan Tropper

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

Kevin Smith

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

Kevin Spacey

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

Kevin Spacey

I just want to be better. I just want to be better. But this is very encouraging.

Kevin Spacey

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

Kevin Bacon

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Kellie Martin

I want to become a very good writer.

Kelli O'Hara

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.

Kurt Busch

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level.

Kurt Cobain

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

Kurt Cobain

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

Kesha

I never want to be pretentious.

Kesha

I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

Jonathan Safran Foer

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Narada Michael Walden

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.