Quotes About Desire

Surfing was something I always wanted to do.

Surfing is something I just crave.

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

I find that after every win, there is a new surge in motivation because it feels so good. I am addicted to winning. That sounds terrible, but it is true you are addicted to that feeling.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I never had the slightest desire to have cosmetic surgery - partly because I don't want to look like an alien and partly because it's nice to age in a way. Also, I think that if your soul is beautiful, then the rest of you stays beautiful.

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

I would get plastic surgery. It sounds fun.

One time, I was out watching music, and someone whispered in my ear, 'You can do surgery on me any time.'

You know, this might surprise people, but what I really want and what I'm really working toward is a Chanel suit. I'd really like to have one that I could wear forever - a really classic one.

I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but the value of Truth - as the enemy. There will be even fewer surprises that I would reject the Dionysian Nietzsche, the celebrant of transgressive desire.

I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

The issue is not possession of riches, according to Saint Augustine, but the desire for them.

My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.