“My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.” IfsWantedGoalInterestingNumbersInformationStudentsReadyGrewEasier Author:Brian Lamb
“I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.” WantedEarthReadyShapesDearVolumeAbstractionJuiceNot ReadyDensity Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
“To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayWantedAmericaCertainFeltWalksReadyMonthsSurpriseWoodsStuckSmokeThis DayTrafficJamAmerica TodayForebodingTraffic JamKeennessWalk In The WoodsStuck In Traffic Author:Bill Bryson
“You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.” PeopleIfsShouldMadeWantedReadyDevelopmentDemandLateResearchShould HaveAvailableDepartmentToo LateForeseen Author:Charles Kettering
“What fun that is, doing voices. I would do them every day if they wanted me to. It's so much fun to go to work and not shave and wear your tennis shoes and your gym clothes. As opposed to having to shave, shower, go to the gym, look good, get ready, go to makeup and hair, and all that stuff. I love doing voices. It's just so relaxing.” IfsLooksWantedFunStuffVoiceReadyHairClothesShoesTennisMakeupGymShowersTennis Shoes Author:Eric Roberts
“My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.” WholeWantedJobsNextPathAchieveMissingReadyFocusedWhole LifePushing Author:David Duchovny
“Ive always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. Im ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.” ChildrenWantedMinesReadyMomMy MomMy ChildrenGreat LoveGreat Relationship Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“Ive been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but youve got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.” MindArtReasonWantedFightingTermFourWeekReadyRootsDecidedMartial ArtsWrestlingMixed Martial ArtsBacking Out Author:Kurt Angle
“Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.” IfsWantSaidDoneWantedJobsLinesImagineReadyActressesWorriedBeing The BestFrustrated Author:Salma Hayek
“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.” KindMadeWantedUsedSimpleCommonObjectsReadyLateOrdinaryDrawing Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now." Because I feel like I've done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.” KnowsWantGivingFeelsWellsChildrenDoneWantedReadyDown AndSettlingSettling DownReady To Settle Down Author:Aleta St. James
“It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real” RealDreamWantedSongLeftAdventureReadySummer Author:Meat Loaf
“It's not that I don't have kids for some personal reason outside of, I just haven't had kids. And I haven't met someone who wanted to, as far as I know. And perhaps I'm attracted to women who aren't ready to make that commitment just yet.” KnowsReasonKidsWantedHavensReadyMetsCommitment Author:David Cross
“Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.” WantedFilmReadyDifficultyPrizeSincereFestivalsShort Films Author:Michel Ocelot
“I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.” PeopleThinkingWorldPlayCareWantedChallengesChanceLevelsPlayerReadyProveMy FamilyTake CareBest Players Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“Young women are now looking at me for cues. That's definitely been a responsibility. But I feel like I was ready to take on something like this because I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be afraid, and that's definitely what it's done for me.” FeelsDoneWantedYoungResponsibilityReadyYoung Women Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.” WantedActorsNiceReadySmartDressesSexyBeing NiceBeing Smart Author:Vincent Cassel
“When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.” IfsYearsLittlesWantedLawCommunitySupportHappenedReadyBreathsCongressDebateTerroristUnhappySoilSeptemberPatriotFbiSeptember 11NsaHorrificTerrorist AttacksBipartisanSeptember 11thPatriot ActEncryption Author:Matt Blaze
“I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.” WantPlayWantedAmericaCarCryReadySouthOne TimeSouth America Author:Michael Jackson
“When I put Fight together, I wanted to maintain the momentum. I didn't want to kinda disappear for five years and then come back. I was just so ready to break away from where I was before and just start the journey. To just fulfill and realize these dreams that I carry in my head.” WantYearsDreamWantedTogetherFightingRealizingBreakFiveJourneyReadyDisappearFive YearsMomentum Author:Rob Halford
“Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.” WorldHumansWantedHuman BeingsReadyBabyRevolving Author:Matthew McConaughey
“But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.” YearsStatesWantedMovingWinningFeltBitsFiveReadyMovedAccomplishFive YearsAccomplishedBowlsChampionshipCowboyGypsySuper BowlMiamiMoved OnOklahomaNational ChampionshipsReady To Move On Author:Jimmy Johnson
“I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.” ThinkingShouldChildrenHas BeensReasonBigsWantedMotherLevelsPositionReadyMomShould HaveFearfulFoxesShould Have BeenDisappointBeing A MotherGood Mom Author:Ainsley Earhardt
“We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.” PeopleStillsKidsWantedTogetherReadyMarriedDaughterBillsNewspapersBrokeMy DaughterBack TogetherBroke UpEarly 20s Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready. Shakespeare is a culmination of eight years of stand up experience and joke writing. I recorded two shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. The crowds were great and that's what really makes an album.” WritingYearsTwoShowsWantedWaitingNew YorkReadyProudCitizensJokesAlbumsCrowdsEightTheatreCulmination Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.” IfsKnowsGivingBelievePersonsFactsGovernmentWantedSchoolJobsSongHouseSexTermSupportWifeReadyAmountSpeechBillsMy WifeSetbackSorority Author:John Carlos
“I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.” YearsWantedVoicePerfectReadySixSingingPercentPressesStudiosProducers Author:Tyra Banks
“When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.” StillsWantedJobsHouseWhitePositionReadyPressureBillsPressesClintonCreditLimitationVisibleWhite HouseSecretaryThrustUnder Pressure Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.” StillsWantedRememberSongGirlBehindsHappenedStageReadySingingHappeningsGratefulBe GratefulCostumesOther Girl Author:Katy Perry