Desperately Quotes

#1. That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Atom Egoyan

#2. I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.

Jack Black

#3. It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

Susan Sarandon

#4. For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!

William Kircher

#5. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Owen Wilson

#6. She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn't. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in between? Unknowable, it seemed. Absolutely unknowable.

Chris Bohjalian

#7. A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.

J. Loren Norris

#9. Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

Carl Rogers

#10. I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become,
during his earlier years of a miller's life.

Jane Addams

#11. 'Monday Mornings' is so utterly different - in so many ways - from anything else I've done, really. I also desperately wanted an ensemble piece, but I couldn't have dreamed of being a part of something like this. I am so lucky.

Jennifer Finnigan

#12. People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

Bryant McGill

#13. Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

#14. It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.

D.S. Mixell

#15. We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Charles Osgood

#16. Good morning, Rob,' I said. 'It's always great to see you.'

Mr Monster desperately wanted to stab him.

Dan Wells

#17. Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

Ralph Keyes

#18. If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

Evelyn Waugh

#19. Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.

Beth Revis

#20. Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Kumail Nanjiani

#22. To the millions of Americans who've attempted to use HealthCare.gov to shop and enroll in health-care coverage, I want to apologize to you that the Web site has not worked as well as it should. We know how desperately you need affordable coverage.

Marilyn Tavenner

#23. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

Roxanne St. Claire

#24. If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.

Anonymous

#25. How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?

Gary Shteyngart

#26. She seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

John Edward Williams

#27. I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise.

Dean Koontz

#28. I wanted her to want to know everything about me. It was unnerving how desperately I yearned to bare my soul to her, expose my flaws and have her accept me anyway.

L. H. Cosway

#29. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

Tig Notaro

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

Ralph Steadman

#31. Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

Anne Frank

#32. And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Shane Claiborne

#33. It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.

Dominic Cooper

#34. Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

Billy Graham

#35. All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

#36. Because I care so much about what you think, my hiding has everything to do with you. I desperately want to manage your opinion of me. Nearly anything I do is to convince you I am good.

Emily P. Freeman

#37. I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Leonard Slatkin

#38. You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Sheilah Graham

#39. All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Douglas Kennedy

#40. You are beautiful inside and outside, through and through, and I love you completely. Desperately. With every inch of my heart and soul, and I always will to my dying day.

Ann H. Gabhart

#41. I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Dorothy Allison

#42. My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.

Geoffrey West

#43. To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Joseph Priestley

#44. I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Agatha Christie

#45. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

C.S. Lewis

#46. Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

Natalie Massenet

#47. I MUST go to what desperately frightens me
the chance of failure.

Sally Field

#48. I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding.

David Levithan

#49. A wild animal, when cornered, may suddenly and desperately defend itself. This is why I try not to spend any more time outdoors than is absolutely necessary.

Lemony Snicket

#50. Such pedantic apotheosis is reached by so few, and when parishioners are left without their guiding star, we can only desperately cling to the last intimations of a passing titan.

Michelle Franklin

#51. Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately.
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

#52. Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

David Platt

#53. I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

Dan Simmons

#54. So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

William Kirby

#55. 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

#56. one of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough

Chuck Klosterman

#57. When you want something desperately, the whole universe conspires to get you that thing.

Paulo Coelho

#58. I live on the cusp of two worlds, trying desperately to fit into one.

Tricia Levenseller

#59. Maybe he's just lonely." "No way did he kidnap Jace off that roof because he's desperately in need of a bromance," said Isabelle. "He's planning something." They

Cassandra Clare

#60. Back on the ferry, I sip some vodka on the rocks and have a chat with God.
Me: (desperately) What the *&%$# am I going to do?
God:
Me: (surprised) Really? After all those Sundays of being a back up singer for Jesus, you got nothing to say?
God:
Me: (humbly) Help me out here.

Lexis De Rothschild

#61. We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#62. We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

David Platt

#63. I realize that we both desperately want to be people we really aren't. It makes me a little braver.

Jodi Picoult

#64. They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.

Hermann Hesse

#65. When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds.

Stephen Richards

#66. Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

Alex Haley

#67. I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're in a time where we're desperately in need of a great reformation.

John Shelby Spong

#68. The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and

Tom Stoppard

#69. The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

Priscilla Vogelbacher

#70. We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves.

Anonymous

#71. I did not want to be forgotten. More than that, I wanted, desperately - I fell to my knees and began to tear out the weeds, the vines, by their very roots - to be remembered.

Melanie Benjamin

#72. If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#73. Where is your compassion when i need it most? Open your eyes, love, and see what is right before you: that I am not merely a friend, but a man deeply, desperately, in love with you.

Julianne Donaldson

#74. I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

W. Somerset Maugham

#75. It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Gloria Steinem

#76. There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.

Julie Reisler

#77. Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

#78. Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

Edmund Clowney

#79. I desperately want to help, but the truth is, I don't know. I used to hate myself; eventually, I didn't anymore. I used to be shy; eventually, I made my living by talking too much.

Lindy West

#80. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

Libba Bray

#81. Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

Alan Redpath

#82. Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

Nathanael West

#83. I can't stop thinking of you," he said, "I can't stop dreaming about you, wanting you and needing you. All I know is that I desperately need you in my life.

Sierra Rose

#84. We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

David Brooks

#85. Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."

"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut.

Sylvain Neuvel

#86. May I never forget, on my best day, that I need God as desperately as I did on my worst day

Mike Epps

#87. The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Carl Sagan

#88. Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

Amanda Palmer

#89. In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

Marcus Samuelsson

#90. I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

Sid Waddell

#91. I can't be around you right now. It hurts too much, because I am so completely and desperately in love you, Tweet.

Alison G. Bailey

#92. It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

Arianna Huffington

#93. Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

David Weber

#94. I tried desperately to shift the weight of the dish back in towards me, as I saw Mother reaching

Kate Mildenhall

#95. I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

Ruba Nadda

#96. What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.

Amanda Grace

#97. A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

Sri Chinmoy

#98. At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

Rose Byrne

#99. No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

Pawan Mishra

#100. Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.

Jana Wolff