Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Frank Herbert

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Frank Herbert

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

George H. W. Bush

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

George Harrison

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

Harmony Korine

I just wanted it to be American.

Harold Bloom

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

Haile Gebrselassie

I want to go down in history.

Gunter Grass

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

Graham Taylor

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Jim Brown

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

Jim Butcher

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Jim Butcher

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Jim Butcher

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

Jim Butcher

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Jim Butcher

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

Howard Shore

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

Ice Cube

I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else.

Ice Cube

You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission.

Ice Cube

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.

Ice Cube

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

He can do anything, be anything he wants to be.

Ivan Turgenev

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

Ina May Gaskin

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

Ina Garten

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

Igor Stravinsky

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Hyman Rickover

How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?

Hunter Hayes

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

Gloria Swanson

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

James Frey

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where will wants not, a way opens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.