Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you… — Gareth Barry Copy Share Image
“Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.” — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When Dad heard 'The One and Only,' he said: 'That's a smash.' Dad played the demo through the speakers at Abbey Road,… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it. — Jonathan Cahn Copy Share Image
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against… — Lewis Mumford 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
We pursued many actions against foreclosure rescue scammers who were reaching into the pockets of desperate people in an effort to steal… — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
As my passion is theatre when I do a film I'm taking time out from my theatre career. So, I'm desperate to… — Gemma Arterton Copy Share Image
I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's just such a desperate feeling if you've lost a child. You'd probably feel so desperate that you would do… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
