We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
Irvine Welsh
LiveWorldBetterFeelDesireWant
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
William Godwin
ManBusySeasonsDesireSpiritHard
The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.
Jake Arrieta
TrainDesireEliteLevelStarted
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks
ReadingDesireMonkeyCleverWrite
To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.
Giordano Bruno
BestPresentPerfectDesireNothing
Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
H. G. Bissinger
DesireChemistryEmotionHungerUp
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
Phyllis Smith
HeartTimeDanceDesireFirstWell
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.
George C. Wolfe
ThinkFindDesireKnowOutWhere
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
Mary Beard
WomenSilenceDesireNeverCultural
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
LiteratureDesireMemorableActor
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
Gary Coleman
JobWallsBrickActingDesireHead
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
Susanne Bier
RelationshipMeDesireWantIntense
Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing
CourageDesireYour
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
Mikheil Saakashvili
VisionRespectPeacefulDesireRight
Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.
George Takei
StrongStopDesireWillNeverOur
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
FreedomMeHotelSpeechDesireOnly
When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.
Sundar Pichai
WorkMeSearchDesireGoogleThings
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
SympathyDesireGenuineNothing
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
Michelle Dean
HistoryAmericaWinnerPersonDesire
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives.
Fumio Sasaki
BornNewDesireLifestyleNeedOut
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.
Adam Levine
LoveBestFamousDesireBandSinger
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Jim Walton
BelieveDecisionsInformationDesire
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley
GreatMoneyTryingSecurityDesire
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Francis Beaumont
Too MuchDesireTrueWayNeverGain
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