#desperate

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#anything #desperately #i #kind #life

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. ↗

— Ed Helms

#because #cappella #converse #cool #daring

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#desperate #escape #i #many #me

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#anesthetic #desperate #interesting #interesting thing #loneliness

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. ↗

— Chris Elliott

#going #i #i think #idea #me

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. ↗

— William Feather

#find #happiness #might #quit #some

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out! ↗

— Eric Carle

#between #day #days #desperate #doing

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#always #am #cane #derby #desperate