Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

Jerry Ferrara

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Chris Pine

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

Frank Spotnitz

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

Montgomery Clift

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

Michael Phelps

When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Seth MacFarlane

The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

Madonna Ciccone

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

Lorna Luft

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

Michel de Montaigne

When we have got it, we want something else.

Marilyn Manson

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

Marcus Brigstocke

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

Parker Stevenson

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

Lauren Oliver

Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

Lauren Oliver

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Lauren Oliver

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

David Mamet

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

Jack Canfield

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

J. J. Abrams

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

Jane Seymour

If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."

Harold Ramis

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

Cassandra Clare

Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before

Helen Mirren

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

Tobias Wolff

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

Tina Turner

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Nicki Minaj

He said he don't like em boney, he want something he can grab

Nana Mouskouri

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

James Gunn

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

Louise Erdrich

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Maya Angelou

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

Eric Hoffer

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

John C. Maxwell

The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.