Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

James Welch

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Maimonides

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Powers

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

Im Dong-Hyun

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

Marlee Matlin

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Michael K. Simpson

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Slash

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Susannah McCorkle

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes ...

Taylor Hackford

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's An...

Caterina Scorsone

The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

Judy Greer

Jack Llewelyn Davies: My name be Nibs the Cutthroat, feared by man and greatly desired by the ladies. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Jack!

Finding Neverland

Stanley Kowalski: You think I'm gonna interfere with you?... You know, maybe you wouldn't be bad to interfere with.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche DuBois: Please don't get up. Stanley Kowalski: Nobody's going to get up, so don't get worried.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stella: Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself... Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kowalski: Hey, toots! Canary bird, will you get out of the bathroom! [pounds on the door]

A Streetcar Named Desire

Old Monk: Lust awakens the desire to possess. And that awakens the intent to murder.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Little Bill Daggett: Let the man out W.W. He's desiring to leave the hospitality of Big Whiskey behind him.

Unforgiven

Damiel: [as Falk is led away] Wait! I want to know everything. Peter Falk: You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.

Wings of Desire

Peter Falk: I can't see ya, but I know you're here. I can feel it.

Wings of Desire