Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chanel Iman

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Chang-Rae Lee

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

Charlie Hunter

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Munger

I don't want to understand Facebook.

Charlie Munger

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

Charlie Munger

I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook.

Charlie Munger

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there

Charles Rangel

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

Beyonce Knowles

I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.

Beyonce Knowles

We all want the same things...the right to be happy, to be just who WE WANT TO BE.

Beyonce Knowles

I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Bernie Ecclestone

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.

Bernhard Schlink

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

Bernie Mac

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

Edward James Olmos

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

Edith Piaf

I don't want to die an old lady.

Edith Sitwell

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

Eddie Murphy

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Eddie Murphy

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

Eddie Murphy

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Eddie Murphy

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Eddie Izzard

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

Ed Case

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

Earl Warren

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

Eartha Kitt

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

David Twohy

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

David Horowitz

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

David Hockney

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

David Hockney

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

David Hockney

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

David Duval

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

David Dinkins

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

David Brooks

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.