Wanting Quotes - page 11

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. (Brittany Murphy)
I think that there is this idea that what you should go after is fame. That is a hugely mistaken idea because fame means absolutely nothing. This whole culture of wanting to become famous is on a hiding to nothing, a sign of a society that's lost its way and will only judge people as being valid if they're famous, which of course is all bullshit. As Tom Stoppard said, the only thing that fame means is that more people know you than you know. View quote
Jeremy Irons
Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. View quote
Kate Clinton
So what's one little kiss, one tiny little touch? Aah, he's wanting it so much. I swear that this is royal blood, running through my skin. Oh, can you see the state I'm in? Kiss it better, kiss it better. View quote
Peter Gabriel
[Regarding Flashdance-related fame] It was very clear to me that it's not real. It's not real...I was never the little girl who thought I wanted to be famous. My first real quest that I can recall...other than wanting to be a jockey...was trying to figure out who or what God was. That really drove me for quite some time...I had a notion that there was this mystery that I didn't really know anything about, and I wanted to try to figure it out.... so fame was not my driving force. View quote
Jennifer Beals
I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings... but there's something dead about it, something deserted. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before. (Leona Lewis)
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. View quote
George S. Patton
The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with any extraordinarily lofty appreciation of the powers of the human soul, yet it attributes to it a power of originating a kind of ideas the like of which Omnipotence has failed to create as real objects, and those general conceptions which men will never cease to consider the glory of the human intellect must, according to any consistent nominalism, be entirely wanting in the mind of Deity. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
A guy who's always interested in the condition of the world, and changing it, either has no problems of his own, or refuses to face them... not wanting to face things of his own nature. View quote
Henry Miller
Poetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely is. It is a vocabulary based on the noun as prose is essentially and determinately and vigorously not based on the noun. Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry. So that is poetry really loving the name of anything and that is not prose. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It had much more to do with my wanting to be with hippy girls and have lots of hashish than it did with my sympathy for the plight of the North Vietnamese people under US imperialism. Much more, much more to do with hippy girls and hashish. View quote
William Gibson
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die. View quote
Philip Pullman
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music. View quote
Harvey Keitel
You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. View quote
Harvey Keitel
Is it knowledge that is wanting? We Indians, born and bred in a country where Jnana has been stored and accumulated since the race began, bear about in us the inherited gains of many thousands of years.... But it is a dead knowledge, a burden under which we are bowed, a poison which is corroding us, rather than as it should be a staff to support our feet and a weapon in our hands; for this is the nature of all great things that when they are not used or are ill used, they turn upon the bearer and destroy him. (Sri Aurobindo)
India, the ancient Mother, is indeed striving to be reborn, striving with agony and tears, but she strives in vain. What ails her, she who is after all so vast and might be so strong? There is surely some enormous defect, something vital is wanting in us, nor is it difficult to lay our finger on the spot. We have all things else, but we are empty of strength, void of energy. We have abandoned Shakti and are therefore abandoned by Shakti. The Mother is not in our hearts, in our brains, in our arms. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
I did go from wanting to be someone now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways. View quote
Matt Dillon
To try curing someone of a "vice," of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his. View quote
Emil Cioran