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Quotes About Desire

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
~ Horace
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ Mark Twain
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~ Yogi Berra
I should like to be a horse.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
~ Oscar Wilde
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
~ Stephen King, Under the Dome
If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.
~ Mark Twain
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
~ Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
~ Esi Edugyan
Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!
~ Dylan Moran
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
~ Albert Camus, A Happy Death
I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
~ Emo Philips
I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
~ George Carlin
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
~ Langston Hughes
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
~ Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
~ Henry Fielding
It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.
~ Lisa Scottoline, Look Again