“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.” PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.” MenDesireFeetTwentiesConsumed Author:Taki Theodoracopulos
“If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.” IfsWritingYearsTwoDesireNovelReaderYears AgoTwentiesCuriosityRussiaFamiliarityUnfamiliarTerrain Author:Debra Dean
“I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.” WayRealWantedUsedDesireForceBitsRichFiguresTwentiesPainfulWoodsTinyMaking MoneyApartmentConfusingParticipating Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.” FacesDesireReadingHoursWhiteNovelMoonTwentiesRootedObsessiveSpursLove And Marriage Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsMovingDesireHoursPleasureDealsFourWeekSixCreatingTwentiesSevenComplainingMoving ForwardEighteenInventingInventing Things Author:Alber Elbaz
“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.” PeopleWayLongTwoRealMomentsDesireSidesSilencePiecesLike YouConflictArgumentTwentiesGoldenInternalsGoddessTrapsSuperficialDiscretionOne PieceOlympianMethodistsTwenty TwoInternal ConflictWoodpeckers Author:Aldous Huxley
“George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience—which is sometimes a great help—and a strong desire to be my very best.” KnowsShouldSometimesHelpingDesireLanguageStrongTwentiesIgnorantFranceInexperienceStrong Desire Author:David McCullough
“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.” RealAgeDesireAbilityFailingTwentiesAgingFortyHidingFragile Author:Gerard Depardieu
“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.” GivingFirstsDesireCommunityResponsibilityGenerationsCenturyLonelinessIdentityDutyMembersDespairEthicsLonelyWeakSickTwentiesNobleSolidarityOur GenerationPersecuted Author:Elie Wiesel
“I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.” DesireGirlClassMinutesTwentiesDrinkingBunchParisDozenUp And DownPeasantsChampagneUpper ClassGallonsDelinquentsGallopingLoafing Author:Rowan Atkinson
“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.” IfsNeedsWellsMatterRealityDesireHouseHoursPoorBrainEducationWatchesStudyFourMiddleTvsBalanceTwentiesPressureNo Matter WhatBlindRadioNewspapersMagazinesCrapObscureGroundedDeafConsensusSincerelyExtremistSupermarketsWell RoundedNuttyMiddle Of The RoadDeaf And Blind Author:Ivan Stang