Adora Svitak
Adora Svitak

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.

Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt

When I really discovered who God was and had a firm relationship with him my junior year of college, I journaled constantly. All day long. I had boxes of journals. They were really just love letters to God, just thanking him and praying out loud and telling him my desires.

Akio Morita
Akio Morita

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Alan Gregg
Alan Gregg

A good education should leave much to be desired.