Lusted After Quotes

#1. I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Janice Dickinson

#2. O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

Al-Ma'arri

#3. Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe it was an each to her own scenario.

Megan Crane

#4. What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

James Joyce

#5. He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.

Andrew M. Greeley

#6. People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

James Earl Jones

#7. I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

Iris Apfel

#8. Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.

Art Buchwald

#9. Where the Jedi courted power, the Sith lusted after it; where the Jedi believed they knew the truth, the Sith possessed it. Owned by the dark side, they ultimately became their knowledge.

James Luceno

#10. Love in the flesh remained elusive. It drew yet frightened him. This was the late eighties, after all, the most terrifying days of the plague. Surrounded everywhere by insolent youth and beauty, Paul looked and lusted but didn't dare touch.

Jonathan Galassi

#11. The game is afoot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Baruch Spinoza

#13. 'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.

Scott Bakula

#14. Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Pablo Neruda

#15. The whole place was empty.
But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on. Here in the Overlook all times were one.

Stephen King

#16. What made drugs perpetually so sexy was the opportunity to be other. Years after he'd figured out that pot only made him paranoid and sleepless, he still got hard-ons at the thought of smoking it. Still lusted for that jailbreak.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Ralph Venning

#18. Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

Jerome K. Jerome

#19. But the lovers are locked in, as only lovers can be.

Ian McEwan

#20. You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines
commercial and underground
and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

Thakoon Panichgul

#21. Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Noel Coward

#22. All life is emptiness. Fill it with endless love, bliss, and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

Sathya Sai Baba

#24. The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There

Victor Hugo