All Quotes

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
‐‐ Carroll Shelby

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
‐‐ Andy Summers

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.
‐‐ Riaad Moosa

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
‐‐ Dorothea Benton Frank

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.
‐‐ Colin Wilson

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
‐‐ Richard Thompson

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
‐‐ Anita Hill

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
‐‐ Cynthia McKinney

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.
‐‐ Norah Jones

What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
‐‐ George Martin

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
‐‐ Hannah Marks

What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.
‐‐ Andra Day

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.
‐‐ Michael Aspel

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.
‐‐ Lord Robertson

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.
‐‐ Cheryl Cole

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
‐‐ Nia Vardalos

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.
‐‐ David Gerrold

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
‐‐ Randy Quaid

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
‐‐ Raoul Dufy

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
‐‐ Alma Guillermoprieto

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
‐‐ Susan George

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.
‐‐ David Souter

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
‐‐ Magdi Yacoub

What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
‐‐ Chris Meledandri

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
‐‐ Barack Obama

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
‐‐ Jack Kingston

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
‐‐ David Zucker

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
‐‐ Robert Redford

'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'
‐‐ Jennifer Chiaverini