Desire Phrases

Phrases

• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A face as long as a fiddle
• A forlorn hope
• A week is a long time in politics
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Accidents will happen
• Against your will
• All I Really Want To Do (Bob Dylan song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is You (Maria Carey song)
• All I know is what I read in the papers (Will Rogers quotation)
• All we want is the facts Ma'am (A catchphrase from Dragnet)
• Any way you want it
• Appetite For Destruction (Guns N' Roses album)
• Appetite for life
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Art is long and life is short
• As Long As He Needs Me (Shirley Bassey song)
• As broad as it is long
• As honest as the day is long
• As long as a month of Sundays
• As long as your arm
• As merry as the day is long
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As true as the day is long
• At her majesty's pleasure
• At long last
• Be careful what you wish for
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Bend to my will
• Beyond hope
• Blood lust
• Blood will out
• Boys will be boys
• Breeder's choice
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Burning desire
• Business before pleasure
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business or pleasure
• Cast a long shadow
• Center of hope
• Constant Craving (k d lang song)
• Cooler heads will prevail
• Crime of passion
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Crunch all you want, we'll make more (Doritos advertising slogan)
• Cut a long story short
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Danger, Will Robinson (A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space)
• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club song)
• Do You Want To Know A Secret? (Beatles song)
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan)
• Even a worm will turn
• Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Faith will move mountains
• Flattery will get you everywhere
• Flattery will get you nowhere
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Forever is a long time
• Free will
• Gee, I wish I had a nickel (Life Savers Candy advertising slogan)
• Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (Will Smith song)
• Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper song)
• Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Glimmer of hope
• Grand passion
• Great white hope
• Guilty pleasure
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• He will give the Devil his due
• He will never play the piano again
• Heads will roll
• Heart's desire
• Hobson's Choice (David Lean movie)
• Hobson's choice (Cockney rhyming slang for voice)
• Hope against hope
• Hope for the best
• Hope springs eternal
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• How long is a piece of string?
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• I Want Somebody To Love (The Beatles song)
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I Want You (Bob Dylan song)
• I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
• I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston song)
• I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor song)
• I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so
• I feel like a Guinness - I wish you were (Guinness advertising slogan)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• I want my MTV (MTV advertising slogan)
• I want my Maypo (Maypo advertising slogan)
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• I will if you will
• I will make you fishers of men
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener (Oscar Meyer advertising slogan)
• I wish they all could be Caledonia girls (Caledonia Airlines advertising slogan)
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• If anything can go wrong, it will
• If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve
• If this is wrong I don't want to be right
• If you build it they will come
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• If you got the munchies, nothing else will do! (Hostess potato chips advertising slogan)
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• If you want to get ahead, get a hat (Hat Council advertising slogan)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Ill will
• In the long run
• In your dreams
• It Won't Be Long (The Beatles song)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• It leaves a lot to be desired
• It will all end in tears
• It will be all right on the night
• It will blow over
• It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To (Lesley Gore song)
• It's a long way to Tipperary
• It's everywhere you want to be (Visa advertising slogan)
• Itching to
• Keep hope alive
• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass
• Land of hope and glory
• Last will and testament
• Laundry list
• Leaves a lot to be desired
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Live long and prosper (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Live today. Tomorrow will cost more (Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan)
• Living will
• Long Bob (Nickname of Robert Meusel)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
• Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Jimmy Osmond song)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
• Long division
• Long drawn out
• Long face
• Long faced
• Long in the tooth
• Long long ago
• Long lost
• Long odds
• Long shot
• Long sighted
• Long suffering
• Long time no see
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Love will find a way
• Lust after
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Money, That's What I Want (The Beatles song)
• Multiple choice
• Murder will out
• Must have accessory
• My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion song)
• Never had it, never will (7-Up advertising slogan)
• Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
• Not a hope
• Not by a long chalk
• Not by a long shot
• Not long for this world
• Only time will tell
• Passion Sunday
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Pleasure Island
• Pleasure yourself
• Polly want a cracker?
• Prepare to want one (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• Put it on the long finger
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Set your heart on something
• Sheer driving pleasure (BMW advertising slogan)
• Short arms, long pockets
• Smoke Craven 'A' - will not affect your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• So long
• So long and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Some day my prince will come
• Some day my prints will come
• Spoiled for choice
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stop the world I want to get off
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• Take a long walk off a short plank
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• Take your pleasure where you can find it
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• That and a nickel will get you a ride on the subway
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron song)
• The Thrill (Nickname of Will Clark)
• The court will rise
• The international passport to smoking pleasure (Peter Stuyvesant Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• The long and short of it
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The long arm of the law
• The long, hot summer
• The more you get the more you want
• The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• The truth will out
• The wish is father to the thought
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There will be an answer, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• There will be tears before bedtime
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• They will do anything
• This one will run and run
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Time will tell
• To cut a long story short
• To die for
• To make a long story short
• Today something we do will touch your life (Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan)
• Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest
• Triumph of hope over experience
• Want a better Internet? You belong at America Online (AOL advertising slogan)
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• Want some seafood Mama (Fats Waller song)
• Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Waste not, want not
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• We never forget you have a choice (British Caledonian Airline advertising slogan)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• We will fight on the beaches
• We will sell no wine before it is time (Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan)
• What You Want is What You Get (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• What we want is Watney's (Watney's beer advertising slogan)
• What will you do with all the money you save? (Toyota advertising slogan)
• What women want
• What's your pleasure?
• Whatever will be will be
• When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them (Buick advertising slogan)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• When you wish upon a star
• Where do you want to go today? (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• Where there's a will there's a way
• Where there's life, there's hope
• Whet your appetite
• Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
• Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• Will do
• Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)
• Wish for the moon
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
• Wish you were here
• With the best will in the world
• Without us, some guys will starve (Carl's Jr. advertising slogan)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You pay your money and you take your choice
• You say you want a revolution (Line from Beatles song)
• You'll wish you had never been born
• You're a long time dead
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• Your potential, our passion (Microsoft advertising slogan)