#desperate

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#awkward #convince #desperate #having #hype

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

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #inspirational

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#car #desperately #down #efficiency #fuel

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#desperately #hungry #material #now #scraping

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#day #desperately #die #every #every night

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

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#brave #courage #cowardice #dangers #desperate