Quotes About Desire

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.