The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the anonymity of Panama banking secrecy different from the FBI's interest in breaking Apple's encryption of the iPhone?

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

When people have a passion and desire, it burns through and shows.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.