“I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair
Source: The Mermaid Chair
Discussing his high school years. Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 66
“I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair
Source: The Mermaid Chair
“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
Wish I Didn't Know Now.
Song lyrics, Toby Keith (1993)
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Quotations from SophieBHawkins.com
Context: Before I was signed, I just wanted to get into the system, even though I didn't know what that meant. After I got signed I found that I was confused by all the mixed messages from the label about what I'd have to do to keep their support. I fought and fought to maintain my identity and grow as an artist at the same time, but when I realized that to get their support on Timbre I'd have to start working with schlocky writers and totally sell out, I decided to pack up my marimba and split.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Referring to the first Woody Guthrie record he ever heard, p. 243
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
On the forming of the band U2
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Antonine Maillet (1929) Canadian writer and scholar
Antonine Maillet, Acadian author quoted by Isabel Vincent in the Toronto Globe and Mail, June 24, 1989. Source: Dictionary of Canadian Quotations by Robert Columbo. (Toronto: Stoddart, 1991) p. 3