Hidden Desire Quotes

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would watch actors like Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Kirk Douglas, and I understood them.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

On the sly, scoping for love.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.