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Desire Quotes

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

Play Desire Now Position Being Able

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Freedom Dress Desire Like Having

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Kiss Me Desire Out Consolation

I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

God Me Mom Night You Desire

The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Eyes Practice Thought Seeing Desire

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Christopher Columbus

Desire Said Island Same Without May

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge Soul Eye Desire Become

Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

Business Better Grit Desire Become

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

Problem Born Profit Desire Personal

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Saint Teresa of Avila

God Secrets Desire Accept Position

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Work Hope World Black Place Desire

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Virginia Postrel

Life Feel Dream Desire More Image

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Struggle Imagination You New Desire

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

Theatre Desire Never Out Albums Put

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

Story You Feeling Find Desire Write

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

Brian Azzarello

Character People Interesting Desire

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

King Desire Poor Without Would Than

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Stanley Hauerwas

Money Rich Greed Desire Want More

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Think Retirement Career Desire Lucky

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

Death Desire Understand Write Read

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Education Man Career Born Desire

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Life Admit Desire Real Fancy Motion

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Work Spiritual Deep Think Desire

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Desire Spirits Attain

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