Quotes About Desire

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

Athletics, for me, was something I was pushed towards. I really wanted to play football when I was younger. Over the years, I started to enjoy it more and learn about it.

A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.

Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal, but you could clearly see that that was what I wanted to do.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

You've got to be greedy in this game and to keep pushing.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.

I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education.

God that's a great game. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.

My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can happen.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

I want to act in a Tarantino movie and be a vixen in one of his films. Maybe I'll secretly drop an episode of 'Flesh and Bone' in his mailbox and see what he thinks.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

There's a lot of talented guys, but at the end of the day, you've got to go out there and get it. It's really about who's competing and who wants it more on both ends of the floor.

I love 'Fire On The Floor.' It's just smouldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't help it.

I love Manchester, but I would like to have a getaway place in Florence.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.