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“I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”

World Way Want Said Bigs Wanted Certain Born Taste Limits Experience Rounds Core Innocence Layers Chunks Biting

Author:Abba Kovner

“We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.”

Has Beens Reason Wanted House Enjoy Business Taste Credit Burning Reason Why Ems

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.”

Life Said Wanted Success Son Taste Police Accounting

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.”

Knows Humans Wanted Sports Human Beings Taste Meat Hunts

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.”

People Giving Wanted Sound My Own Style Taste

Author:Birdy

“I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.”

People Way Wells Able Wanted Successful Changed Taste Being Successful

Author:Dolly Parton

“Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.”

People Thinking Firsts Wanted Stuff Goal Quality Rich Records Taste Sells Get Rich

Author:Randy Newman

“One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.”

Wanted Genius Taste

Author:Horace Walpole

“Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.”

Thinking Way Want Mean Children Stills Wanted Faces Mother Challenges Changed Taste Asking Priorities My Children Rebel Conventions Robotics

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.”

“I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Important Stories Wanted Walks Streets Taste Smell Who I Am Cop I Want You Crackheads

Author:Nas

“I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.”

Writing Wanted My Own Teach Taste

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.”

“Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.”

World Want Trying Humans Long Said Done Wanted Young Girl Names Can Do Community Havens Involved Taste Died Noses Streams Midst Long Ago Spectators Before I Die

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”

Feels Kind Long Hard Wanted Lasts Waiting Enjoy Half Taste Window Empty Drunk Beer Awake Over You Swimming Tasty Go Hard

Author:Ken Kesey

“Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.”

Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an

“He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.”

Mind Hands Wanted Father Heaven Water Holy Taste Dry Confession Communion Starlight Holy Water

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Feels Might Wanted Used Three Felt Simple Behinds Wonder Honest Habit Comfort Taste Expectations Incredibles Combination Decadence Syllables Sean Three Words

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Feels Wanted Felt Wonder Comfort Taste Incredibles Combination Decadence

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.”

Firsts Long Wanted Turns Taste Treasure Shirts Breasts Throat Sweat Fragile Tied Tails Impatient Pirate Dividing Tied Up

Author:John Crowley