I Quotes
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“I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.”
“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.”
“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.”
Source: The Star-Touched Queen
“I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.”
Source: Tropic of Capricorn
“I wanted a mission and for my sins, they gave me one.”
“I wanted a more female point of view.”
“I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.”
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.”
Source: It's Always Something
“I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.”
“I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.”
“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”
“I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision.”
“I wanted a taste of many different lives, sophisticated or simple, highbrow or low. Only then would this journey be worthwhile. (Although perhaps a life plain as porridge would never be an option for me.)”
Source: Stories of the Sahara
“I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.”
“I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.”
“I wanted a woman to be for me a steady ground, like the earth itself, where I could always be renewed.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”
“I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.”
“I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with”
“I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.”
“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”
“I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.”
“I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.”
“I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise”
“I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.”
“I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.”
“I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.”
Source: World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!”
“I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.”
“I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.”
“I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.”
“I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. It's like, "Put on some makeup, make me look good. Okay, now I'm going to roll my shoulder." Part of me still feels like, "Wow, that's weird for a man to do."”
“I wanted blood to signify life, not death.”
Source: Lily's Ghost: A Novel
“I wanted Bow's hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won't wear eyeshadow unless she's going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She's a woman who has style, but it's all about functionality - she grabs stuff from her closet.”
“I wanted Cassia to choose me. In some ways, our being Matched is the biggest strike against me. How was she supposed to love me when the Society said she should?”
Source: Reached
“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
Source: the bell jar
“I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.”
“I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.”
Source: Glitch
“I wanted consolation, I wanted love, I wanted, to save me, some colossal and powerful love such as I had never known before.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.”
“I wanted desperately to be part of our pack; I felt a hole inside myself where my pack should have been.”
Source: Bloodmark
“I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived”
“I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.”
“I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.”
“I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
“I wanted easy banter and deep communication and long periods when neither of us felt the need to say anything at all.
(p. 168, Trevor Benson)”
Source: The Return
“I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.”