Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerhard Richter

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Harvey Milk

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

Harold Washington

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

Harold Prince

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

Harold Ramis

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

James Dean

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

James Broughton

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

James Brown

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

Jalal Talabani

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

Jamaica Kincaid

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Jamaica Kincaid

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Jaime Winstone

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

Jackie DeShannon

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Jackie Cooper

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

Jackie Chan

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

Jackie Chan

I want to show audiences I can act.

Jackie Chan

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Jackie Chan

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

James Garner

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

James Gandolfini

I want nothing to do with privilege.

James Frey

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where will wants not, a way opens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention

Iyanla Vanzant

Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have.

Iyanla Vanzant

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us. That's why we have a weave, we're wearing Spanx and everything is 'fine.' If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself...

Iyanla Vanzant

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

Isaac Marion

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

Isaac Marion

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

Isaac Asimov

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

Isaac Asimov

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.