Quotes About Desire

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

I've been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.

There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band.

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd send away for movie magazines - the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.

I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.

Competitive feeling means you want do do good work. You can't lie about wanting to be on top. There is no reason for me to be insecure at this time. I would be insecure if I was sitting at home doing nothing, but I am in films now, and that's where I always wanted to be.

The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That's about as edgy as you can get.

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.