Quotes About Desire

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.

With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they're never happy even after they succeed. They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.

I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

My greatest dream is always to be luckier.

there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation!

This kind of machine-based learning is driven by a hunger for knowledge, not by a desire to show off your talent or to "signal" as we economists say.

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.

When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

The Only place to love a man or fight a man is below the belt

Admiring the D, are you?

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Tookie's heart pounded. her knees wobbled, her heart started to flutter, and she felt a warm gush through her core. Try not to suck on his thumb again!