“Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.” PeopleYearsTodayWantedAmericaSituationHundredYears AgoUnstableComing To America Author:Jack Williams
“A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.” YearsSaidWantedReadingCoupleYears AgoIndependenceTiredAncientGreekNovelistsHistorianMarvelousDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceAncient Greek Author:Richard Russo
“I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.” IfsWantWritingYearsArtSaidStillsBookEndsPlayWantedSoundStudentsTenAmbitionMusic IsYears AgoOkayTrackNovelistsFifteenAmazedPlaywrightFifteen YearsDead EndsArt Students Book:Making History Source: Making History
“I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.” YearsArtDifferentRealMightWantedGuyFightingGayYears AgoHatredMalesAverageMachoGetting Laid Author:Kurt Cobain
“I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now.” WantYearsPersonsTodayWantedHappenedYears AgoSorryGladMy FutureNot Sorry Author:Nancy Werlin
“When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.” YearsTwoWantedEvilSinSacrificeMiddleSonBabyBirthThousandWeaponsYears AgoUltimateDefeatEastTinySupremeTriumphVillageMiddle EastThousand YearsObscureChristmas DayGood Over Evil Author:Charles Colson
“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.” IfsYearsWholeWantedLastsCoursesNumbersChildhoodYears AgoFoundationAcceptedI RealizedStableFalsehoodLarge NumbersDoubtfulEdificeDemolish Author:Rene Descartes
“He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.” YearsWantedSidesToo MuchBrotherYears AgoDecidedRelatedGodlyAdoptedPercy Jackson And The OlympiansTysonCyclops Author:Rick Riordan
“My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.” WorldYearsLongSometimesKidsWantedMotherMillionsOfficeLong TimeDaughterYears AgoAmanda Author:Phil Mickelson
“I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.” YearsWantedGirlFatherMovementYears AgoSorryFishingHuntingCampingOther Girl Author:Lou Henry Hoover
“What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?” IfsKnowsMenYearsIdeasStoriesHappensWould BeWantedDangerMen And WomenYears AgoRiversThreatenedSoulmateTypewritersUncovering Author:Richard Bach