Quotes About Desire

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

I've always wanted to be the strongest in my school, in my class, everywhere. I don't care if I'm in year seven, I wanted to be the strongest in the school.

I would love to win the Premier League because it's the strongest league in the world.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

I strongly believe in 'if it catches my eye, it's something I'd buy.'

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

I've had a lot of struggles in the NBA, so to have some type of success, it just feels good, and makes you want more.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

I never choose my opponents, but I think the biggest fight that everybody wants to watch, the fans want to watch, is me and Ronda.

I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.

I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.