The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature. – Olivia Thirlby
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either you write songs or you don’t. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there’s a natural desire to want to make records. – Roger Waters
I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig. – Sandra Bullock
Woe to the man who is always busy – hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate – the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. – William Godwin
I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies. – Seann William Scott
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. – Simon Mainwaring
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don’t have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. – Twyla Tharp
Intellectual curiosity about one’s own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn’t cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself. – Siri Hustvedt
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. – Todd Gitlin
I don’t pretend anything anymore. I don’t have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore. – Thomas Kretschmann
We’re born with the desire, but we don’t really know how to choose. We don’t know what our taste is, and we don’t know what we are seeing. – Sheena Iyengar
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. – William Godwin
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills. – Tony Buzan
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother’s hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word ‘goat’ looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. – Tea Obreht
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. – Victoria Woodhull
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. – Samuel Alexander