Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Barbusse

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

Cat Stevens

Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love.

Cate Blanchett

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.

Cate Blanchett

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

Cate Blanchett

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

Cassandra Clare

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

Cassandra Clare

You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

Jackie Collins

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Jackie Collins

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Jeff Bridges

People fall in love for mysterious reasons.

Jerry Seinfeld

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Jerome K. Jerome

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all.

James A. Baldwin

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Jackson Browne

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Christopher Isherwood

It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

Fulton J. Sheen

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

Christopher Dawson

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Christina Hendricks

I'm open to trying new things. That's why I think Birchbox is so awesome! It's something to look forward to and introduces me to something maybe I wouldn't have picked out, but fall in love with.

Christina Ricci

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Chris Mooney

Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.

Gilbert Arenas

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

Germaine Greer

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Fran Lebowitz

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can fall in love and still hate.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love...

Jeanette Winterson

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.