The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for… — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech.… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“So if you're trying to play games with me, I should let you know up front that it's not going to work.… — Tehereh Mafi Unravel Me Copy Share Image
I'm a real people pleaser, and for a while I was really desperate to make a kind of thing that would satisfy… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about… — James Bay Copy Share Image
The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please,… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are… — George Combe Copy Share Image
Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
