#desi

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit. ↗

— Judi Dench

#bit #burning #burning desire #desire #frankly

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#desire #ensemble #groups #i #involved

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#desires #government #happy #how #knows

And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#designed #detainees #fact #guantanamo #helping

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

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#anyone #define #design #had #i

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#change #color #computer #design #graphics

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#desire #goals #hopes #life #respite

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew…. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#writing #design

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#arms #body #dead #desire #fantasy