All Quotes

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
‐‐ Andrei Platonov

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I want my words to survive translation.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my work to be judged, not me.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

I want my world to be fun.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.
‐‐ Sarah Polley

I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
‐‐ Brian Clough

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
‐‐ Loretta Young

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
‐‐ Gabriela Sabatini

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
‐‐ Studs Terkel

I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
‐‐ Matt Drudge

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.
‐‐ Nell Newman

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
‐‐ Ben Quayle

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.
‐‐ Suzy Amis

I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

I want paint to work as flesh.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?
‐‐ Alexis Arquette

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
‐‐ Margaret Mitchell

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish

I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj

I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

I want people to be able to give their voice.
‐‐ Sam Graves

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.
‐‐ Clara Hughes

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I want people to be surprised.
‐‐ Kiiara

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.
‐‐ Michael Gove

I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
‐‐ John Hawkes

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
‐‐ Veronica Roth

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
‐‐ Richard Thompson

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.
‐‐ Michael Gove

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage