“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.” IfsMenWorldWayNeedsMadeImportantMatterWantedHumanityAsksGrowsPerfectMorningCreationSittingConstantMade ItDryContributionSoilYieldCultivationBlacksmithsYams Author:Chinua Achebe
“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.” MindDifferentPlayWantedActorsParentMorningGuitarHorribleNoiseLoudSatDifferent ThingsElectricAstronautElectric GuitarChristmas Morning Author:Joan Jett
“I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.” ThinkingKnowsWritingSaidWantedKnownMorningPoetFortunateWriting Poetry Author:Sarah Kay
“... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.” IfsKindChildrenCareWantedPoorDealsMorningMastersSurvivalSlaverySlaveIgnorantGet UpHealth CareWelfareClothingsAmendmentsShelterBondage Author:Joycelyn Elders
“One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.” WritingSaidGovernmentHappensWantedNamesPowerfulMorningProveLettersDecidedAbsolutesNewspapersOfficialsImpressiveVery PowerfulToastsFriesImbecilesGovernment OfficialsFrench FriesPowerful GovernmentFrench Toast Author:Johnny Depp
“The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first Vadodara has first right on me.” FirstsWantedSpeakPowerfulMorningMedia Author:Narendra Modi
“I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.” IfsWantedLyingFightingMorningLessonsSceneShapesDown AndChineseRanKicksBoxingEvery MorningChinese Food Author:Jason Isaacs
“I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.” PeopleChildrenWantedYoungMorningAdults Author:Katherine Paterson
“Oslo is a city with a hidden beauty that I wanted to explore and find out if it was possible to capture the specific feeling of bicycling home from a party early in the morning just as the sun is coming up.” IfsFeelingsHomeWantedPartyCitiesMorningSunCaptureOsloHidden Beauty Author:Joachim Trier
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football. (on returning to the premiership)” PlayWantedEnjoyGoalLinesMorningSupportFrontsFootballEnglandWake UpBottomFantasticLeagueFancySaturdayBottom LinePremier LeagueSaturday MorningScoring Goals Author:Michael Owen
“I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as a promotion man at Def Jam to working records through my company. In 2000 I was asked to host a show in Norfolk VA and through that show I was then asked to host the morning show in Detroit. The concept of the show was around Hip Hop. We were active in the community and we wanted to do a local show that had a hip hop feel around it.” MenFeelsShowsWantedArtistSongCommunityMy OwnCompanyTalkingMorningRecordsInvolvedConceptsHip HopRadioActiveLocalsHipsHopsHostPromotionJamDetroitNorfolk Author:MC Serch
“I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft but that was still fun, something you could listen to and love and even dance to, but not hate yourself in the morning. I think I did that. Most of my lyrics come from my own personal journals that I have kept over the years.” ThinkingYearsStillsWantedHateSongFunMy OwnMorningRecordsProveAnd LoveCraftsJournalHate YouTwists Author:Stella Soleil
“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.” YearsKindWantedMorningGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkTwentiesRadioAccidentsComedianChicagoHometownCarolsBuffaloStand Up ComedianRochester Author:Stephanie Miller
“Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.” ShouldBookWantedNightReadingRoomsMorningEveningBorrowed Author:Benjamin Franklin
“You are always kind of suspicious that there's a better life out there for you no matter what it is - and obviously being in a band for me was always what I wanted to do, it's the only thing that I can do, it's the only thing that gets me up in the morning, but you can't help but wonder what else you'd be doing if you weren't in the band.” IfsKindI CanMatterHelpingWantedCan DoWonderMorningBandNo Matter WhatBetter LifeSuspiciousI Can Do It Author:Ryan Jarman
“I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.” ThinkingKindFeelingsWantedLosesDealsSilenceMorningLike YouPeriodsTerribleGayOkayAidsGet BackClosetsTerrible ThingsBeing GayGayness Author:Margaret Cho
“I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!” PeopleWantFeelsRealWantedNightNextWaitingMorningMonthsSixClothesSix MonthsOne Night Author:Esteban Cortazar
“Well, as I got older and started using makeup, I wanted to use something lightweight under my makeup that wouldn't clog my pores. So I get up in the morning, brush my teeth, wash my face, and do my whole routine. Sunscreen is the first thing I put on before I put on my makeup.” FirstsWellsWholeUseWantedFacesMorningTeethGet UpMakeupRoutineBrushesSunscreen Author:Brittany Snow
“The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones." Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord." It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.” MenChildrenWantedLordEnemyMorningCrazyTenStonesSundayCommandmentsAlabamaTen CommandmentsPsalmsCourtroomSunday MorningCrazy Man Author:John Shelby Spong
“Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my whole family there and we wanted a little more space and to stay in a hotel. The truth is we were asleep [when the attack Bastille Day terror happened] and woke up the next morning to it and it was obviously horrific. And then the idea of going out and filming, it just felt so stupid to be working the next day and pretending that everything's cool when you're making some frivolous thing.” LittlesIdeasWholeWantedNextFeltSpaceMorningNiceHappenedStupidTruth IsMy FamilyTerrorHotelStayingPretendingGoing OutCrewNext DayFrivolousHorrificWhole FamilyMonacoBastille Author:Jamie Dornan
“I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.” WorldWantedMorningMiracleEvery MorningSunrise Author:Mordicai Gerstein