Quotes About Desire

I wish I had claws, just because how cool would that be?

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

I am a great fan of Rituparno's films and have always nurtured a wish of acting in his films. I was very impressed with his 'Chokher Bali,' 'Bariwali,' and 'Raincoat.'

My 'Collaboration Wish List' is a mile long.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Shashi saab had always wished that the traditions continue, even after he bids adieu to the mortal world. He didn't want any of us to mourn his death; his desire was to celebrate life in every form.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.