“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesSaidSpeakSecretTensionThriveIronicDisguiseImplied Book:Twenty Questions Source: Twenty Questions
“I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.” IfsWorldWantYearsWinningSeriesWorld SeriesCubs Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.” WantYearsMadeSixCome UpFarmersLassie Author:June Lockhart
“I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsBodyGamesBrainCompanySuccessfulRecordsIndustryStrongerNbaMusic IndustryRecord CompaniesShaq Author:Rico Love
“EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.” WantFeelsYearsHelpingChallengesOne ThingPoliticianFingersListsLiftsVotersCynicalSwingsEmilyEmily's Author:Ellen Malcolm
“I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.” WantYearsForgetForget ItGreat Year Author:Dick Stuart
“I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.” WantGivingYearsWellsI CanEnjoyAttentionCompanyKnownOne ThingEntrepreneurInitialsSerialsOne Thing At A Time Author:Silvio Scaglia
“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.” PeopleIfsWantYearsSaidMillionsFiveTvsIndustryDollarsFive YearsContractsMillion DollarsDo Whatever You Want Author:Roone Arledge
“Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsLongActingLong TimeTeenageTeenage Years Author:Bill Skarsgard
“When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.” PeopleWantFeelsYearsKindChildrenKidsCatholicGuiltyMy SisterRabbitsCatholic Family Author:Marge Schott
“If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsYearsPersonsDifferentTodayNextLinesWeekMonthsBecomingTomorrowDrawsCommitmentExtraordinarySandNext YearMake You ThinkOrdinary LifeNext WeekThinking DifferentlyExtraordinary LifeLines In The Sand Author:Hal Elrod
“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.” PeopleIfsMenWantGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensTwoHardWould BeDiesFatherWishMillionsLandBrotherThousandMy FriendsGive MeDollarsEastDrivenMy ChildrenMy BrotherNativeOld ManNative AmericanThousand YearsMillion DollarsSlaughterCattleGreat FatherWish To Die Author:Standing Bear
“Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.” WantNeedsYearsIdeasWealthInspiringSecurityIdentityDrugCaughtCaught UpAddict Author:Paul L Wachtel
“The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.” WantWritingYearsHas BeensLanguageNationsSecretIgnoranceWallBiggerConsumptionConsumerismCharmingCheerfulUglinessOverconsumptionIlliterateVetsInfuriatingBlithe Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder