A classical work doesn’t ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas. – Jeremy Northam
All the filmmakers I’ve worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously. – Jeremy Davies
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things – genre paintings, historical paintings – the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. – Kara Walker
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything – I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it’s like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that’s what they were doing; it’s like a message from another culture. – Jonathan Dee
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. – Marcel Proust
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why. – Jack W. Szostak
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy. – Jess Walter
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart. – Lois McMaster Bujold
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. – Lauren Groff
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
It’s a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first – I don’t have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music. – Kip Winger
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art. – Kate Braverman
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. – Martin Van Buren
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? – Joseph Butler
Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny. – Kelly Clarkson
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs. – James Coburn
Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you’re represented. – Laverne Cox
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. – Madame de Stael
There’s an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see. – Jess Row
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the ’70s! – Lea Thompson
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. – John Osborne
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. – Joyce DeWitt
