I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read… — Harvey Mason, Jr Copy Share Image
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
The world says that time is money, but I say that money is time. In order to earn enough money to satisfy… — Israel Meir Kagan Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“He stared at her the way he used to in the days of their youth, his eyes lit with open yearning.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest.… — Tone Bell Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day,… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
We need to transcend our thoughts and desires to truly understand philosophy and the universe as a whole. However, in our everyday… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Lee Rang was abandoned by love, so he's a character who has a deep desire for destruction. — Kim Bum Copy Share Image
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image