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Patti LuPonewants

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord CrothersRate it:
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. – Leo C. RostenRate it:
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing. – CiceroRate it:
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. – Fran LebowitzRate it:
Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll. – Billy MadisonRate it:
Ed Hardy called . . . he wants his clothes back! – Tom ZeganRate it:
EGO wants to be confirmed. It needs "company" to expand. The more you know your SELF, the less approval from others you need. – Gordana BiernatRate it:
Europe needs to know what is going on in its member countries, poland wants to be treated seriously, but Poland needs to treat investors seriously too. – Philip JeffcockRate it:
Every feeling that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come. – Letitia Elizabeth LandonRate it:
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. – Unknown Writer's Famous QuoteRate it:
Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. – P. J. O'RourkeRate it:
Everyone wants to know in the world, is Hollywood racist ? is it ‘ burning cross racist ’ ? No. Is it ‘ fetch me some lemonade racist ’ ? No. It’s a different type of racist. ... Hollywood is ‘ sorority racist. ’ It’s like, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa. – Chris RockRate it:
Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you. – SwordfishRate it:
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. – Persian ProverbRate it:
He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time. – Vikrant ParsaiRate it:
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich NietzscheRate it:
I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. – Jacqueline BissetRate it:
I dont feel poor. Poor people are those who works to keep up a lifestyle that they cant afford, and who always wants more than they have. – Severin MeilandRate it:
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. – Tony BlairRate it:
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. – George EliotRate it:
If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his proper enemy. – Friedrich NietzscheRate it:
It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity. – AristippusRate it:
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. – Josh BillingsRate it:
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D EisenhowerRate it:

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

– Samuel McChord CrothersRate it:

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

– Leo C. RostenRate it:

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

– CiceroRate it:

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

– Fran LebowitzRate it:

Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.

– Billy MadisonRate it:

Ed Hardy called . . . he wants his clothes back!

– Tom ZeganRate it:

EGO wants to be confirmed. It needs "company" to expand. The more you know your SELF, the less approval from others you need.

– Gordana BiernatRate it:

Europe needs to know what is going on in its member countries, poland wants to be treated seriously, but Poland needs to treat investors seriously too.

– Philip JeffcockRate it:

Every feeling that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come.

– Letitia Elizabeth LandonRate it:

Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

– Unknown Writer's Famous QuoteRate it:

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

– P. J. O'RourkeRate it:

Everyone wants to know in the world, is Hollywood racist ? is it ‘ burning cross racist ’ ? No. Is it ‘ fetch me some lemonade racist ’ ? No. It’s a different type of racist. ... Hollywood is ‘ sorority racist. ’ It’s like, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.

– Chris RockRate it:

Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.

– SwordfishRate it:

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

– Persian ProverbRate it:

He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

– Friedrich NietzscheRate it:

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

– Jacqueline BissetRate it:

I dont feel poor. Poor people are those who works to keep up a lifestyle that they cant afford, and who always wants more than they have.

– Severin MeilandRate it:

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

– Tony BlairRate it:

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

– George EliotRate it:

If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his proper enemy.

– Friedrich NietzscheRate it:

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

– AristippusRate it:

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

– Josh BillingsRate it:

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

– Dwight D EisenhowerRate it:

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