Wanted Man Quotes

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love. — Thomas Hardy

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man. — Mamie Van Doren

I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends. — Sam Lipsyte

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it. — Stirling Moss

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him. — Brad Templeton

I wanted to make at least an effort to impress, so I found my best suit, a Primark special that looked like it had been ironed by a blind man — Jay Stringer

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do. — Paul Scholes

He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I reckon he only ever wanted you to be happy. That's why he was the man for you. — Hugh Howey

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her. — Matthew Thomas

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. — David Alan Grier

I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit. — Niecy Nash

I tried to walk a mile in a man's shoes once. I ended up running most of the way!! Seems he wanted them back.. — Neil Leckman

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet. — Mark Nepo

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick! — Eleanor Roosevelt

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father. — Katy Perry

Colt always wanted his first man-on-man sexual encounter to be with Jace Montgomery. The current problem? Now that he'd had Jace once, he wanted more. — Kindle Alexander

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve. — Lewis Black

I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard. — Jazz Feylynn

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. — Michael Catt

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out. — Eiji Yoshikawa

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes. — Aleksandr Kuprin

When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me, — Brian Oldfield

(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even — Peter Straub

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books. — Chester Himes

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted? — George Bernard Shaw

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up. — Robin Williams

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. — Cat Deeley

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up. — Eartha Kitt

Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear ... than a fact that he wishes was an opinion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wanted to ruffle this man's pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did. — George McGovern

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. — Alice Hoffman

I've always wanted to be a man for a day. — Kym Whitley

Forget being turned on. This man, this kiss, encompassed everything she ever wanted. — Robin Bielman

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all. — Frank Thomas

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. — Rodney Dangerfield

He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. — Ken Liu

I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all. — Nicci Greene

If you just give me a chance, I could be the man you've never dreamed of and never wanted. — Jarod Kintz

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be. — Gerard Depardieu

He wanted to tell her that he'd learned a man could come to love again without betraying his first love. — C.S. Harris

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. — Jeanette Winterson

I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat. — Simon Pegg

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. — Rick Perlstein

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore De Balzac

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting. — Orson Scott Card

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks. — Helen Rowland

E wanted her.
And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover ... as more. — Sarah MacLean

Fred shook his head again, this time giving Holden the vaguely frightened look of a man who wanted to back slowly out of the room. — James S.A. Corey

It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm — Donna Augustine

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay. — Sean Maher

It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk. — Krista Ritchie

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. — Lillian Gish

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems. — Stephen King

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick ... — Darynda Jones

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. — C.S. Forester

He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon. — John Steinbeck

I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at. — Fredrik Backman

This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed. — Victor LaValle

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there. — Thomas McGuane

The bodies of a man and his dog fused together, skin and fur melded. Nobody wanted to die alone. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different. — Chaz Bono

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. — Florence Welch

Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing. — Donna Grant

No man wanted to face warriors like Finan in battle. — Bernard Cornwell

It's not the way I wanted to spend eternity with the man I love, but it will have to do. At least we are together. — Theresa Braun

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. — Dashiell Hammett

I wanted to be afraid, especially when I saw the long,thin sword he carried in his hand, but I couldn't.

The man was wearing a Snuggie. — Hannah Jayne

It was about her. I wanted the man who treated her how she deserved to be treated to be given the honor of giving away her daughter. In — Colleen Hoover

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world. — Barbra Streisand

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist. — Chris Columbus

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms. — Scott Spencer

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his. — Christina Dodd

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. — Joe Hill

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job. — Winston Churchill

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem. — Stephanie Klein

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. — Henry David Thoreau

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. — Oriana Fallaci

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it. — Alice Hoffman

I would have wanted you, yes. You're gorgeous and that's just the man in me. But I meant mine, Haley. I would have wanted you to be mine. — Rachel Higginson

There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty. — John Steinbeck

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. — Sting

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her. — Jack Kirby

Always, there was a tiny part of her that wanted to kill any man she knew. On principle. — Gail Carriger

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike. — Leona Helmsley

Oh yeah, she wanted to be this man's prey in every way. She'd felt his brand of dominance and wanted more of it. — Katie Reus

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. — Mike Ditka

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman. — James Stephens

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. — Sara Sheridan

Whatever this man wanted, Kelsier's instincts said that he shouldn't be allowed to have it. — Brandon Sanderson

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' — Brian Eno

Itd be cool to carry on doing films, but when I was a kid I wanted to be an ice cream man. — Rupert Grint

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.' — Corey Haim

She didn't need a man. She wanted one. — Robin Bielman

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me. — Charles Manson