#desperation

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#asked #come #company #could #desperation

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #appeal #countries #desperation #emergencies

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. ↗

— T.M. Williams

#desperation #ethics #luxury #morality #tm-williams

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#desperation #money #need

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#inspiration #make #person #perspiration #things

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#lottery #tickets

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #deprivation #desperation #leave #life

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#desperation #fire #full-bodied #honest #over