Quotes About Desire

Michael Owen's wonder goal against Argentina in 1998 was one defining memory, and as a Sunderland supporter, I remember crying my eyes out after they lost that play-off final against Charlton. Much as that hurt, it made me realise how much I wanted to play the game.

As a Liverpool supporter, all you want is for them to be successful.

I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.

I suppose that I am ambitious.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

Salacious? I suppose every once in a while the salacious thing is not a bad thing. It's kind of monochromatic if that's all you do.

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

I am a foodie and do not suppress the needs of my body.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

For sure I want to stay at Real Madrid.

If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been improved to the point where you would hope to conserve a structure rather than alter it. At that point, you become a conservative.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.