Want Quotes

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

~ Ray Bradbury

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

~ Shakira

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

~ Sia

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

~ Octavia Spencer

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

~ Narendra Modi

I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

~ Kaley Cuoco

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

~ John Battelle

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

~ Channing Tatum

I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

~ Hunter Hayes

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

~ Tracy Chapman

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

~ Angela Duckworth

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

~ Tamora Pierce

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

~ Juan Pablo Di Pace

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

~ Janet Montgomery

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

~ Ed Sheeran

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

~ Thomas Jefferson

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

~ Bill Burr

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

~ Wole Soyinka

I want to show the world my humor.

~ Tracy Morgan

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

~ Bob Newhart

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

~ Michael Pena

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

~ Sherilyn Fenn

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

~ Howie Mandel

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

~ Alan King

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

~ Thom Browne

When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'

~ Darren Star

I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

~ Harland Williams

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

~ Lawrence Kasdan

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

~ William Westmoreland

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

~ William Halsey

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

~ Kevin O'leary

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

~ Bobby Riggs

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

~ George W. Bush

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

~ Ann Coulter

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

~ Will Ferrell

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

~ Thomas J. Watson

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

~ Emma Watson

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

~ Emma Watson