#wanting

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows - ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #landy #leaving #skuldugerry-pleasant #wanting

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#american-society #consumerism #wanting #inspirational

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #climate #daily #dwellers #enjoyment

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#american idol #been #companies #different #far

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#i #theatre #up #wanting #writer

These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#boring #guys #just #know #neighborhood

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#aspects #challenge #competed #competitive #ever

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#call #childish #college #courses #eventually

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#army #because #bombed #bush #care