“There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.” WayWantMomentsMightParticularMonthsSixSix Months Author:Peter Morgan
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.” ThinkingWayWantYearsI CanDifferentPlayEnjoyCareersRecordsParticularMetsYears AgoAppreciateEnjoyedFortyTwilightHerbsEighteenBluegrassEighteen Years Old Author:Chris Hillman
“I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.” PeopleThinkingMenWantPersonsMightWantedFallCoursesFeltHappenedFieldsParticularMarriedCapableFalling In LovePlentyRealmsAbstractAccomplished Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.” WorldWantNeedsHumansSometimesDoneCertainHuman BeingsForgetParticularAmountPeaceful Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.” IfsWantMadeRealWonderParticular Author:Mary Oliver
“I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.” ThinkingWantEnoughStoriesBlackConsciousnessCasesDesignParticularEternitySuicideCommitUnconsciousShort StoryVoidFloatsAnticipate Author:Rod Serling
“Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingMindPersonsHas BeensSometimesCertainStuffForgetEffectsParticularPerspectiveReaderPagesConnectionsAssumptionCommentSurprisingEnlighteningInfluential Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in particular, when you think, well, I'm going to believe what I like, but I'll say what the powerful want, you do that over time, and you believe what you say.” ThinkingKnowsWantBelieveWellsLooksHardPowerfulParticularEasierIllusionMirrorsAbout Yourself Author:Noam Chomsky
“The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.” WantWritingCommunityFiguresParticularSignificantBobUrgentImpressiveSpoken Word Author:Denise Duhamel
“There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.” WayWantLongUseParticularGenreBossRequirementsGenre Is Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“I didn't want to be beholden to one person. So I did something where I had hundreds of people who backed the work. I could just do work, and since a lot of people were interested in it, I wasn't beholden to any particular one of them.” PeopleWantPersonsParticular Author:Molly Crabapple
“I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education curriculum, our experience was that Harvard's all about specialization, that's not just true of the professori, it's also true of a lot of the undergraduates, too, and they come, they kind of know what they want to do, they select it because they have a strong aptitude for something in particular.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingKindStrongStageParticularInvolvedVariousSelectHarvardCurriculumAptitudeSpecializationGeneral Education Author:Louis Menand
“Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine... And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.” PeopleKnowsWantCompanyMinesParticularDevelopmentIndianMassiveCoal Author:George Brandis
“There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.” WantFeelsWritingI CanBookDifferentLastsEasyLinesLevelsPlansParticularTypeStructureThemeProgression Author:Matthea Harvey
“I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.” WantWellsGovernmentWinningParticularOffersAchievementApproachEuropeRoundsAbsurdOptimisticQuartersCongratulationsGloomStunningAndrea Author:Boris Johnson
“One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."” PeopleWantPersonsGuyParticularYeahHolesThat Guy Author:Paul Feig
“We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.” WorldWantGivenJusticeParticularOrganization Author:Yoko Ono
“I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.” ThinkingWantPersonsParticularAttorney Author:Al Sharpton
“There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.” KnowsMenWantMightCan DoAnswersVisionRecordsAliveParticularDirectNervesAbout YourselfGuru Author:Van Morrison
“That song [ "Proud of your boy" ] in particular, I sing towards the beginning of the show [Aladdin], and what it does is show his wants and needs at the beginning and what's motivating him and carry it throughout the show. It gives him layers and dimensions. He's a well rounded character and it's great.” WantNeedsGivingWellsDoeCharacterShowsSongBoysParticularProudDimensionsLayersProud Of YouWants And NeedsWell Rounded Author:Adam Jacobs
“I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.” KnowsWantFeelsI CanCertainHateAudienceLaughingKnow HowParticularIntentionPhotographWarmButtonsCraftsman Author:Garry Winogrand
“The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.” IfsThinkingWantMadeIdeasSongParticularLeavingI Want YouEditing Author:Nick Cave