Quotes About Desire

Every man's entitled to hope.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.

My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.