Quotes About Desire

14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

No amount of extra civil servants recruited to deliver Brexit will make up for a lack of rational debate or for political judgments distorted by a desire to sound tough in order to appeal to narrow sectional interests.

Who loves, raves.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I honestly did not want to have kids before I met Ray Rowe.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Once you've reached the highest level, you always want to get back there. It's like, once you drive a Ferrari, you're not satisfied driving a Honda anymore.

Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.