All Quotes

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
‐‐ George Eliot

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
‐‐ Joseph Pulitzer

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
‐‐ Isaac Rosenberg

I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
‐‐ Victoria Pratt

I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.
‐‐ Lisa Graff

I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.
‐‐ Ben Feldman

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
‐‐ Robert Smith

I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

I despise shopping and department stores.
‐‐ Bethenny Frankel

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'
‐‐ Sharon Horgan

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
‐‐ Lori Foster

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
‐‐ Brian May

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
‐‐ Max Winkler

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
‐‐ Frank Auerbach

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
‐‐ David Livingstone

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
‐‐ Kage Baker

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
‐‐ Renee Vivien

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
‐‐ Ben Carson

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.
‐‐ Grace Paley

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
‐‐ Christie Hefner

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.
‐‐ Evan Glodell

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.
‐‐ Sebastian Maniscalco

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.
‐‐ Jewel

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
‐‐ A. Scott Berg

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
‐‐ Gary Neville

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley