Wants Quotes

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

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

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.