If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
Janis Joplin

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Andy Rooney

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Albert Schweitzer

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
Shakti Gawain

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Jean-Paul Sartre

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Dave Barry

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
Dave Barry

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
Louis Farrakhan

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
Louis Farrakhan