Quotes About Desire

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That's why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding - and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody.