I think Dwight loves being number two. I don’t think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It’s like Avis. ‘We try harder.’ That’s Dwight. – Rainn Wilson
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I’ve got to do it! I’ve seen that, I can still remember it, I’ve got to paint it. – Otto Dix
When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn’t stop her because she’s my wife, but she has forgotten who she is. – Om Puri
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. – Oliver Ellsworth
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will. – Richard Simmons
The desire to be rewarded for one’s creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. – Richard Stallman
I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it. – Robin Wright
Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled. – Richard III of England
If there is a reason I’m able to make unsympathetic characters human, it’s because it’s my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual’s particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out. – Pablo Schreiber
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long – very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him. – Sai Baba
None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That’s for you and me to have to do. – Rush Limbaugh
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly. – Saint Teresa of Avila
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. – Russell Banks
We made the joke when we screened ‘Bucket List’ that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it. – Rob Reiner
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. – Richie Sambora
I just don’t believe you’re capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way. – Romola Garai
I don’t feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all. – Ricky Williams
Sometimes I think it’s possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. – Richard Dawkins
I don’t have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That’s not what I do. I make records for people; that’s why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That’s not where my head is at. – Rico Love
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn’t want anyone to know who I was. – Robert Smith
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else’s dream anymore because you can go off and make your own. – Peter Greenaway
My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh – to be with the people I admired – and I have. – Robert Sean Leonard
Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. – Rick Perry
