Desperate Quotes
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This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
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Desperate times breed desperate measures.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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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.
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Haste is needful in a desperate case.
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I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.
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It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
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When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
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I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.
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There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
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We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.
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The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.
