Quotes About Desire

I'm only asking for a little love." "I think you'd settle for a kiss," Carletto said. "I'd be happy with a smile." Pino sighed.

The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

I want to go to there.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.