Wants Quotes

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.