Quotes About Desire

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

As a teenager, the idea of running around, screaming at people was very appealing to me.

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

I was so driven in high school but did sometimes wish I could go out with friends, go to parties, and be a normal teenager. But having mum as my coach at home meant I couldn't sneak around.

I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

In my teens I wanted to be a rock star, I really did. At that time there was nothing I wanted more.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.

It's funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon 'Real Housewives' white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I'm like, 'They can be that white,' and he's like, 'Veneers can be that white.'

I just want to sink my teeth into something good; maybe something with Finn Balor would be great. We had some matches in the U.K.

When I was younger I smashed my teeth and since I was 12 I've been saying: 'I want veneers! I want veneers!'

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.