Quotes About Desire

As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove an LTD, not a Cadillac. Even now, I'm like that. If I'm on the 5th floor, I will wonder why I'm not on the 6th floor. But that was my drive. I was obsessed with my family having a better life.

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

I joke that I'm in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won't be joking anymore.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I'd love to work with Woody Allen.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

I have two interests in life - markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words - markets with the risk and woman with love.

There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It's in our DNA, the American work ethic.

I think it was everything about him: his work ethic, his desire to be the best football player that he can be. He just woke up and he was just Ray Lewis, so he did pretty much everything great. He was a great teammate.

With fitness, I decided that I wanted to get into shape, and my passion for fitness and a desire to help other people do the same made me decide to do a fitness video. People always tell me they want to work out to my songs, so why not make a fitness DVD.