Quotes About Desire

I'm sure as hell not going to fight over her. I got more interesting things to do than that. There's nothing more interesting than a woman, George. Not in this world.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

the best of all sauces is hunger

that the sound of Jack Burns singing one of Burns' own songs had been a form of illusion, the actualization of memory and possibly desire rather than a direct perception.

Simply breathing, in a place like this, arouses the appetite.

There's nobody doesn't want something.

Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

First just try to hit the moon … walking on its surface is for another day.

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.

Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire.

I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define or remember, only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful - and then I wake up, with the waking of Brynhild.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

For the first time in more than thirty years, Nicholas wanted the company of his blood—not the amicable converse of friendship, not the parley of a lover, but the marrow-talk of kin and consanguinity

And their mother and Mr. Smith stood looking at each other and didn't see the shining or hear the singing or sense the fragrance because all they saw was the light of each other's eyes, and all they heard was the beating of each other's heart and all they felt was their love for each other. . . Now that they had their heart's desire, they had no need of any other magic.

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Someone, somewhere, wants a letter from you.

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one… on toast!

Hit's a lot worse to be soul-hungry than to be body-hungry.

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.