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Quotes About Desire

Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
~ Dorothy Parker
Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
~ Dorothy Parker
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
~ Dorothy Parker
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
~ Dorothy Parker
My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
~ Dorothy Parker
I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
~ Dorothy Parker
He's always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty.
~ Dorothy Parker
I wish he were dead. That's a terrible wish. That's a lovely wish. If he were dead, he would be mine. If he were dead, I would never think of now and the last few weeks. I would remember only the lovely times. It would be all beautiful. I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
~ Dorothy Parker
El amor es la única cosa. Atesora tu amor, niña. Vuelve junto a él. Vete a la cama con él. Es la única cosa.
~ Dorothy Parker
No matter what happens to society, I must maintain my supply of ice cream.
~ Doug Fine
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~ Doug Larsen
No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.
~ Douglas Adams
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.
~ Douglas Adams
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
~ Douglas Adams
You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need—for which you need more money.
~ Douglas Adams
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
~ Douglas Adams
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
~ Douglas Adams
Resumamos: es un hecho bien conocido que las personas que más deseos tienen de gobernar a la gente son, ipso facto, las menos adecuadas para ello. Abreviemos el resumen: a cualquiera que sea capaz de nombrarse Presidente a sí mismo, no debería permitírsele en modo alguno realizar dicha tarea. Abreviemos el resumen del resumen: la gente es un problema.
~ Douglas Adams
A car, a blue convertible, sleek and desirable, came sweeping west out of Beverly Hills along the, as I understand it, gracious curves of Sunset Boulevard. Anybody seeing such a car would have wanted it. Obviously. It was designed to make you want it. If people had turned out not to want it very much, the makers would have redesigned it and redesigned it until they did. The world is now full of things like this, which is, of course, why everybody is in such a permanent state of want.
~ Douglas Adams
Åžimdi ölmek istemiyorum! diye ba??rd?.Hala ba??m aÄŸr?yor!Cennete baÅŸ aÄŸr?s?yla gitmek istemiyorum,bütün aksiliÄŸim üstümde olacak ve Cennet'in tad?n? ç?karamayaca??m!
~ Douglas Adams