Quotes About Desire

Men will shop, but they only shop when they need something. Women shop with passion and because it's enjoyable, and for some, it's even entertainment. All you have to do is step into a mall and see how many stores are geared towards men and how many are geared towards women, and you'll get the picture.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

When it comes to gift giving, I always want to get everyone a little something. The problem is that every time I go holiday shopping for others, I come out of the stores with shoes for myself.

I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for me and I couldn't have it.

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

People love dark stories because they take you to a place you think you don't want to go but really you do.

Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

As individuals we all have a side to us where we will do anything for certain emotions we are experiencing, and one of them is love - and love can send you in very strange directions.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun - with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.

I would like to be strapped to a giant rocket and fired into the heart of the sun.