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Quotes About Desire

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
~ Jackie Chan
I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
~ Stephen Chow
And plenty makes us poor.
~ John Dryden
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
~ Democritus
I wanted to do pop music, and I wanted to dance. I wanted all this because that was me. This is my inner performer, that is what it wants, this is what my heart wants.
~ Netta Barzilai
I have no ambitions to be a pop star.
~ Iwan Rheon
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I would like to be Pope if I could.
~ Terry McAuliffe
I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'
~ Shaun Ryder
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.
~ Saint Jhn
I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.
~ John Virgo
The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
~ Charles Bukowski
A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.
~ Robert Cray
A lot of offensive rebounding is a lot of desire, a little bit positioning.
~ Robin Lopez
I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.
~ Juan Mata
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
~ Chris Hughes
We all possess the need to dream.
~ David Copperfield
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
~ Nicolas Berggruen
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.
~ Tom Golisano
Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
~ John Hope
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
~ Joyce Carol Oates