I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information learning was a lot easier.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people their imagination.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking 'My ear looks weird from this angle why is the camera over there?'

For all their current prestige Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

A person who no matter how desperate the situation gives others hope is a true leader.

One must always hope when one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

With any child entering adolescence one hunts for signs of health is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who with the right help are desperate to get off benefits support their family and set an example for their children.

If one is desperate for love I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not get a new set of friends a new family.

After the desperate years of their own war after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

My little son Atticus desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.