My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.
Tina Turner

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Rush Limbaugh

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
Reese Witherspoon

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
Loretta Young

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Loretta Young

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of "So Blue".
Phil Harris

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 learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Ella Maillart

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Walter Winchell

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
Layne Staley

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
Maynard James Keenan