Quotes about want
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“I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Love, Beauty, Angels

“He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

Thinking, Waiting

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

Relationship

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Life, Kiss

“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Life, School

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Life, Fear, Hope

“I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Feeling

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

World

“I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking, Sleep

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Thinking, Christ

“Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Change, Clothes

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Personality

“Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Kiss, Loss

“Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Help

“Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Knowledge

“If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.”
“It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: It's in His Kiss

Love, Way, Kiss

“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Love, Life, Courage, Thinking

“And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?”

Meg Wolitzer book The Interestings

Source: The Interestings

People

“Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her… he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

Secret, Smile, Soul, Freedom

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

People, Truth

“you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Happiness, World, Chance, Fight

“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Good Night, For Him, For Boyfriend, love

“If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Health, Food, Strong

“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love

“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

“Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Time, Help

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love

“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

World

“Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Death, Soul, Sun

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.”

Huey P. Newton book Revolutionary Suicide

Source: Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 190

Death, People, Fear, Communication

“Dragons and legends… It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

Fight

“I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”

Ewan McGregor (1971) British actor

Princess

“People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.”

China Miéville book Railsea

Source: Railsea

People, Star, Light

“Find what you want. I will find you.”

Lloyd Alexander book Westmark

Source: Westmark

“Why do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because I want everyone to witness my youth

Why?
-Isn't it gorgeous?”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Youth, World

“And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous."

"Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood."
"It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Love, Sun

“Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

Patrick Lencioni (1965) American writer

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

People, Thinking

“Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking
about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Thinking, Parent

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

Light

“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

God, Disappointment

“I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Baby

“What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy… a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Girl

“You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.”

Edith Head (1897–1981) American film and television costumer

“No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.”

Douglas Adams book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Game

“I don’t want to forget any of this. The way he’s looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Way, Kiss, Time, Forgetting

“And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Lie, Sleep, Baby

“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.”

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952) American writer

Way

“Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger

I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

“So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Men, Shoe

“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Secret, Way

“What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Kiss

“Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

Truth, Chance

“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Thinking

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you'd listened to me.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

Girl, Thinking, Hurt

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot… I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”

Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer

Money, Home, Success, Help

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Family Happiness

Variant: I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.
Source: Family Happiness

Love, Life, Chance

“If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hell, Thinking, Time

“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

People

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

World

“You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Clothes

“I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.”

Charlaine Harris Grave Sight

Source: Grave Sight

Books, Way

“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Idea

“God loves you just the way you are, but Heto leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Love, God, Way

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hope, Art, Way, Guy

“What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Way

“To want is to have a weakness.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

Richard Adams (1920–2016) English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down

Children, Books, Reading

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Mais, fat impudent, tu ne veux pas qu'on te pardonne, tu veux qu'on croie ou qu'on prétende n'avoir rien à te pardonner. Tu veux qu'on baise la main qui frappe et la bouche qui ment.
Source: Letter (17 June 1837) in The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929) translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe; also quoted in The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975 (1978) by Elaine Partnow

Lie, Kiss

“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Fear

“You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“You know when most girls say they want a big rock, they dont mean, you know, literally a."
-Clary to Jace, pg.313-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Girl

“Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

Source: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

Question

“I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Variant: .

"I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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