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Desperate Quotes - Page 6

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

YouTube Channel "Yakushima"/"Terry Gilliam in NY Museum of the Moving Image 10/2006", www.youtube.com. November 05, 2006.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.80, Dramatists Play Service Inc

I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.109, Oneworld Publications

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

"Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

I've never been desperate to please my father.

"Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.28, Penguin