“If there wasn’t an English word for it, though, then it was probably work best avoided, at least until she was really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Go to where ever dreamland you decide on. But go with passion hand-in-hand. You will never be tired on the way!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing? — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
So.. why are some boys desperate on here?!?! Its called SearchQuotes not SearchDates — Jasmine Copy Share Image
'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“What would you say you've taken away from all this? ... That running away solves nothing? That my desperate need for a… — Joan Medlicott Copy Share Image
I tried too much and too hard to get people to pay attention to what I was doing, and so paying less… — SOHN Copy Share Image
When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
I think people are lonely and desperate for attention and unemployed and bored. I don't mean that these are losers that live… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
“I don't want him to think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Desperate is what I am. Quietly desperate and insatiably curious.” — Alex Adams Copy Share Image
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me.… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play. — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
I'm as desperate as anyone for there to be a DACA deal, for there to a deal on DREAMers. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning. — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image