For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Divorce was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
“I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her last hopes on… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry. — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best… — Terry Pratchett 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
The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for -… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image