Quotes About Desire

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

I love a Coffee Crisp, and they are nowhere to be found in America.

No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.

I have to be obedient to my fans and come on back and give 'em everything that they want.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but it's good for the soul.

I wanted to do everything right. I wanted to be good, and I wanted to be obedient, and I wanted to be the object of my parents' pride. I wanted to go to Heaven.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

I don't see myself as an object, I see myself more as a fantasy to men.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.

A dream is better than obligation.

I do feel the obligation and desire to win the Scudetto with Juventus, and obviously everybody wants to win the Champions League.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

I obsess over places I will never live and restaurants at which I aspire to eat.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.