Quotes About Desire

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

You get what you work for, not what you wish for.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course.

I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.

When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

I'm terrible at sticking to any sort of diet. The more I think I can't eat something, the more I want to eat it. And I know this is the most annoying thing for a girl to say, but I'm just really lucky; I can eat pretty much what I want.

My favorite splurges are cheese pizza with hot peppers, Haagen-Dazs maple-walnut ice cream, Giant brand ice cream sandwiches, and fire sticks - those hot candies the size of a three-inch ruler.

I still got the nasty in me.

'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.

I eventually wanted to do Stock Cars, because it was my dream as a child, after I have done Europe, I have always liked to see the Stock Cars.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it in my coat. And I think it was 'Cry Baby' by The Bonnie Sisters. That or 'Lucille' by Little Richard.

I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.