Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Mason Cooley

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

Mason Cooley

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Mason Cooley

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Mason Cooley

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

Mason Cooley

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Mason Cooley

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Mason Cooley

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Mason Cooley

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

Mason Cooley

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Mason Cooley

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Mason Cooley

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

Michel Houellebecq

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Marie de France

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Theodore Roethke

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Margaret Mitchell

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Margaret Drabble

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Margaret Fuller

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Michael Foley

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

Melissa Marr

Love ans desire aren't the same

I think our fire and desire to win the game made us play better as a team.

I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. I think it's easier to play with MLS teams than play with these teams because of their desire and how they play. They're looking for that one chance. It would be nice to go out and put them away after 20 minutes, but it's never going to be like that.

If Museveni succeeds in his desire to win a third term, we may be looking at another Mugabe and Zimbabwe in the making.

Nicholas Sparks

I have no desire to write screenplays-at heart, I'm a novelist.

Jewel Staite

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

Linda Cardellini

I had the desire to go to Los Angeles, and it's paid off for me. I can't complain.

Nate Lowman

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Miles Franklin

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Milan Kundera

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Milarepa

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.