Streetcar Named Desire

Famous quotes containing the words named and/or desire:

“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)

“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”
—Sir William Osler (1849–1919)