Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
Evan Dando

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
Carlisle Floyd

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
Kevin Eubanks

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
Terry Goodkind

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven Soderbergh

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
Antonio Tabucchi

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
Garry Shandling

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
Charles E. Wilson

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Henry Mayhew

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
Richard Stallman