It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats they just don't want to see the truth!

Restless and in desperate need of adventure I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with scandalizing my family.

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

Growing up I wanted desperately to please to be a good girl.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say it's like this - the script is like this sad funny desperate love song to the lost American man.

In LA I mean here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

I will never say never but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion say or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.

When you come from desperate poverty and that's exactly what I come from you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never ever anything like a solution.

Actually I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

In New York everyone's desperate for success desperate for money and desperate to be accepted but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

Money again has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

When men attempt bold gestures generally it's considered romantic. When women do it it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information learning was a lot easier.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people their imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.