Best 5910 quotes in «desire quotes» category

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read The Loved Ones script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Isabella in Measure for Measure.

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.