Want Quotes - Page 491

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

There's only one God. Call him whatever you want

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Stop the world. I want to get off.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.