Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.
Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.
'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.
I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
