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"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."
Dan Quayle
"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
Annie Leibovitz
"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
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"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."
Dorothy Day
"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."
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"I just want to be myself."
Jim Carrey
"I just want to be myself."
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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
Booker T. Washington
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
Jerry Gillies
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again."
Stacy Keach
"It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again."
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"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."
Dan Quayle
"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."
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"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
Ellen Burstyn
"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
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"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."
Ted Demme
"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."
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"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."
Joan Jett
"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."
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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
Dick Cavett
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
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"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
Paul Mazursky
"One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films."
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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
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"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."
Robert Kiyosaki
"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."
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"But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to."
Lawrence Kasdan
"But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to."
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
Rene Magritte
"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
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"Once you drink one glass, you want another."
John Forsythe
"Once you drink one glass, you want another."
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"You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
"You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know."
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"The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that."
Stuart Appleby
"The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that."
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"You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do."
Lesley Gore
"You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do."
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"The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do."
Lauryn Hill
"The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do."
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"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is."
Karl Rove
"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is."
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"I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated."
Dionne Warwick
"I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated."
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"I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image."
Gloria Grahame
"I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image."
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"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."
Bill O'Reilly
"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."
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"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."
Steve Prefontaine
"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."
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"Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?"
Esther Williams
"Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?"
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"Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm."
Penelope Lively
"Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm."
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"Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want."
Graham Roberts
"Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want."
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"We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing."
Shaquille O'Neal
"We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing."
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"What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?"
Henry Rollins
"What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?"
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"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."
Robin Wright Penn
"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."
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"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
Ken Thompson
"If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there."
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"I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar."
Bill Murray
"I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar."
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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
J. P. Morgan
"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."
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"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."
Walter Jon Williams
"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."
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"We want Google to be the third half of your brain."
Sergey Brin
"We want Google to be the third half of your brain."
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"At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one."
Shannon Miller
"At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one."
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"We do not attract what we want, but what we are."
James Lane Allen
"We do not attract what we want, but what we are."
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"I want to do it because I want to do it."
Amelia Earhart
"I want to do it because I want to do it."
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"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
Michael Cunningham
"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
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"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."
Bill Sienkiewicz
"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."
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"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
Sarah Polley
"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
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"And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan."
Jenna Elfman
"And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan."
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"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
Joan D. Vinge
"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
Bobby Farrelly
"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
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"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
Scott Hamilton
"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
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"Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there."
Method Man
"Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there."
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