Quotes About Desire

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are - who like where they are.

I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.

I want to play football. Whether that will be at Manchester City or somewhere else, I do not yet know.

I want a son.

I always said that I would provide for my son differently to how I was provided for from my father. That was my desire when I was 20 and not even playing in League One.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

It doesn't matter how much it's going to cost me, what I have to do, sooner or later, anyway, I'm going to have what I want.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

I'd love to do a 'Sopranos' sequel.