Quotes About Desire

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

When you're hungry, everything tastes good.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

My pregnancy craving is truffles. I like the smell and I like the way it tastes but they're very very expensive, rare mushrooms.

Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come - and some are like Christmas lunch immediately after a cooked breakfast.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

Well, I've always wanted to get a tattoo done, I just never got around to doing it!

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

I'll never get my chest tatted up, and I'm not big on tattoos on the legs. I'm running out of space on my body; I'd like to get more but I haven't figured out where I'll put them or what I want to get.

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

Tattoos are addictive.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.