I Quotes
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“I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.”
“I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.”
“I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.”
“I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.”
“I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces.”
Source: The Beggar's Prophecy
“I only want to repeat what you already know. There is no limit to how far a person can fall in America.”
Source: Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
“I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.”
“I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it.”
Source: Tell me: poems
“I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn’t ripe enough in years to receive it properly.”
“I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.”
“I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.”
“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.”
“I only wanted them near me because I loved them. Though, of course, it was because I loved them that Peter had to take them from me.”
Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
“I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.”
“I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.”
“I only wanted to help my people.”
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.”
Source: The Razor’s Edge
“I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That’s all. That’s all I wanted to tell you.”
Source: Stories from the Twilight Zone
“I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.”
“I only watch MSNBC for the news.”
“I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.”
“I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.”
“I only watch TV when I go to hotels.”
“I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.”
“I only wear heels when a stylist puts me in them.”
“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.”
“I only wear the latest thing. It's my job.”
“I only wear these crop tops because other clothes would make me sweat when I dance.”
“I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don't try to get too big.”
“I only weigh 98 pounds. The rest of this is liver.”
“I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.”
“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.”
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.”
“I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.”
“I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.”
“I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.”
Source: Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
“I only wish I had more time for fund raising.”
“I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.”
Source: The Elite
“I only wish my brother David had survived to experience Berkeley as well. No one would flinch here if we were to walk down the street together, whereas in Indiana we were constantly met with hostility. I don't believe in heaven, but this is about as close to heaven on earth as I imagine getting.”
“I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.”
“I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.”
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
“I only wish the NRA and its jellyfish, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the whole of it, and then tell us how a heavily armed man, woman, or child, recruited by no official, led by no official, given no goals by any official, motivated or restrained only by his or her personality and perceptions of what is going on, can be considered a member of a well-regulated militia.”
Source: Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
“I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!”
Source: A Room with a View
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”
Source: What Happened to Lani Garver
“I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.”
“I only wish to climb even higher during the rest of my career bc with the power of Team Grimmie, I won't stop.”