Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Leigh Mallory

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Katherine Center

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.

Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Leonard Cohen

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Louis Bonaparte

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

Oscar Wilde

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Kami Garcia

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

Jung Chang

I always wanted to be a writer.

Patrick Warburton

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Patrick Warburton

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

Maggie Stiefvater

she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

John Cleese

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Ronda Rousey

I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.?

Troye Sivan

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be

Rick Springfield

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Paul Twitchell

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

Paulo Coelho

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

Quentin Tarantino

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Pol Pot

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

Richard Thompson

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Renee O'Connor

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

Rod Stewart

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Tullian Tchividjian

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Ulysses S. Grant

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always

Sam Walton

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

Wanda Jackson

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

Victoria Jackson

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

Roland Joffe

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

Monica Denise Brown

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.