Quotes About Desire

One always wants more when things work out.

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional response to someone's art. It's a feeling of responsibility and importance and a desire to be a part of what they're making.

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

People seek change not only when threats and opportunities appear, but when we get tired of the ways things are.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

Some people cheat because they want to, because they can, because it gives them a thrill, or because they just can't do long-term relationships.

I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of plain crisps as I used to get when I fancied someone.

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you're not part of.

Sometimes I wonder if people really want my smelly old shoes, but some people seem quite thrilled by them. So I'm like, OK, well, this is something you can't buy, so there you go.

Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don't want to continue to make genre films.

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

Thrillers excite me as an actor and I have always wanted to be a part of one.

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I always thrive on wanting to play against the best.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.