Desperate Housewives Life Quotes

My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again ... ". ~ Eva Longoria

While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning. ~ Daniela Bobadilla

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives. ~ Teri Hatcher

I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show. ~ Josh Henderson

Oh, fine then. Let the Patron Saint of Desperate Housewives bestow upon us the blessings of his company. ~ Tracy Brogan

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide. ~ Simon Barnes

Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option. ~ Amen Muffler

I watch every 'Real Housewives' franchise there is. ~ Shanola Hampton

On all the 'Housewives' shows, there's always some wannabe wife who's always sticking her head in. ~ Danielle Schneider

I'd never imagined I'd become the ambassador of housewives. ~ Mona Singh

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options. ~ Amen Muffler

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession. ~ Vanessa Marano

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. ~ Wilfred Bion

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. ~ Adam Mansbach

Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.' ~ Barry Humphries

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too. ~ S.E. Hinton

I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening. ~ Alonzo Bodden

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. ~ Carroll Bryant

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise. ~ Esai Morales

In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay - we call them the gay mafia. Over at 'Glee' and 'The New Normal,' my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I'm surrounded by all my gay bosses. ~ NeNe Leakes

My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend. ~ Jessi Klein

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff. ~ Bob Saget

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing. ~ Ernest Becker

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously. ~ NeNe Leakes

Don't be too lazy. Don't get too desperate ~ Constance Friday

'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare. ~ Joyce Giraud

In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind. ~ Andy Cohen

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains ~ Jenny Lawson

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. ~ Loren Eiseley

I bleed passion. I'm not entirely sure what this means but I'm greedy over the words. They're so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark. ~ Marley Jacobs

I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl,' and the brilliant Felicity Huffman on 'Desperate Housewives,' but I think my favorite TV job so far was the pilot I shot for the CW Network this year called 'Joey Dakota.' ~ Erich Bergen

Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. ~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live. ~ Tehmina Durrani

Instead of wasting his time in Frankfurt and Tokyo, the finance minster should focus on Indian housewives and help them balance their budgets by reducing inflation and the fiscal deficit. Unfortunately, our housewives do not have access to the Nashik note printing press like our FM. The solution to India's problems lie inside, not in wooing FII and FDI inflows. ~ R. Vaidyanathan

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

P244 ~ Veronica Roth

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. ~ Jodi Picoult

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway. ~ Carolyn Crane

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. ~ Heinz Guderian

For a desperate disease a desperate cure. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal. ~ Steven Spielberg

And he wasn't desperate. Lonely, maybe. Eager for another whiff of that mouthwatering cologne, definitely. But not desperate. ~ Hunter Raines

Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. ~ Charles Bukowski

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out ... ~ Michel De Montaigne

I never let myself get desperate. ~ Kim Alexis

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. ~ Georg Solti

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways. ~ Robert Hood

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear. ~ Rene Russo

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. ~ Milton Friedman

I had to start watching [The Real Housewives of New Jersey] every week because, well, my IQ was just too high. I mean seriously up there. What can I tell you? After watching every episode, I am now officially as dumb as that brown, particle-like stuff you find outside and don't want to track inside the house. Rhymes with "wirt", I think. ~ Celia Rivenbark

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. ~ Florence King

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own. ~ Lauren DeStefano

America was founded on prayer. Therefore, the removal of prayer from its public life was a central part of its fall from God. A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it. ~ Jonathan Cahn

I am desperate to do a comedy now. ~ Tom Hiddleston

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. ~ Alexander Suvorov

Haste is needful in a desperate case. ~ William Shakespeare

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. ~ Tom Robbins

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. ~ Giancarlo Esposito

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. ~ Ruth Rendell

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps. ~ Tenacious D

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I'm too busy feeling desperate. ~ Marley Jacobs

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. ~ J.K. Rowling

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married. ~ Kelly Osbourne

We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love. ~ Steve Almond

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. ~ Douglas MacArthur

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. ~ Eloisa James

Told to make his peace with King George, Sam Adams replied "Years ago I made my Peace with the King of Kings ~ Desperate Sons

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. ~ Sam Worthington

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. ~ John Green

Can you imagine a silence so desperate
to be heard? ~ Richard Jackson

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different. ~ Adam Driver

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. ~ Al Purdy

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. ~ Jessica Walter

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about. ~ Justine Kurland

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style. ~ Frank Auerbach

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. ~ Kirstie Alley

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. ~ Lisa See

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful. ~ Howard Stern

Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End. ~ Peter Heller

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows. ~ Andy Cohen

Use this to your advantage. Never get desperate. Maintain the attitude that they need you more than you need them. No man is worth getting desperate over. If ~ Charles Reed

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. ~ Livy

I've never been desperate to please my father. ~ Rebecca Hall

Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things. ~ A. Lee Martinez

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering. ~ Ayelet Waldman

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. ~ George Kaiser

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. ~ Charlotte Rampling

When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love ~ Missy Robertson

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. ~ Elia Kazan

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ... ~ May Sarton

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision. ~ Jeff Flake

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me. ~ Angela Lansbury

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. ~ Jesse Jackson

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ~ Thomas Dolby

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle. ~ Martin Firrell

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. ~ John Ford

Desperate is not a sexual preference. ~ R. K. Milholland

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. ~ David Suchet

Some were desperate to remember and others were desperate to forget. ~ Ruta Sepetys