The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. – John Pomfret
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. – Kary Mullis
I also don’t have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list. – Kathy Griffin
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. – Lawrence Durrell
‘Giving 2.0’ was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. – Joseph de Maistre
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls. – Johnny Evers
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them. – Mark Wahlberg
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. – M. Scott Peck
I’m doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It’s called ‘Race,’ and it’s very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they’re all navigating their personal views around race. – Kerry Washington
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. – Liu Xiaobo
I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don’t want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn’t mean it’s a reasonable desire, in all things. – John Edgar Wideman
What I realized is that the desire for making ‘Places’ came from the fact that I’ve got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about. – Lou Doillon
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future. – Lou Holtz
A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler
The thing I can’t figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers… yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from? – Rachel Nichols
I don’t think I’ve ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role – I just see what comes up. – Sean Bean