Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meghan O'Rourke

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Megan McCafferty

...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

Megan McCafferty

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

Matthew Lillard

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Matt Ridley

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Maynard James Keenan

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Maya Angelou

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Maurice Sendak

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

Barry Zito

Same old thing. I'm still falling behind, throwing way too many pitches.

Our shots weren't falling and you can't do anything about that. We just couldn't get in a rhythm.

People see in paisley what they want to see. And people are falling in love with it again.

Offensively, we penetrated a lot. And Brittany Wilson was good at doing that for us. But our shots weren't falling from the outside. We might get one put-back, whereas Plano West would make all of theirs.

Manu Ginobili

Some shots I usually make are not falling in and I'm not feeling that well penetrating, so I'm in a tough moment. But I'm not worried. In 82 games, you're going to have some ups and downs.

Some people here are trying to get out of this place. Nobody wants to stay here forever. They keep trying, but you know what, times are hard. And they keep falling back into homelessness.

Oil prices falling just sparked the market. And then the good GDP number this morning didn't hurt either.

Oil prices falling just sparked the market, ... And then the good GDP number this morning didn't hurt either.

Coarse they're tied up and on a harness for safety purposes so there's no real threat of falling off but yeah, you do have to get past the height issue and looking down a lot.

O. Henry

The whole back of the house is falling in. It's going to take a lot of work.

Keira Knightley

For me it is a story about growing up, making mistakes and falling in love and I think that's as relevant today as it was 200 years ago.

This is what gives you that freeze-dried effect. Ice falling when the temperature suddenly drops, and you get a sheet of ice everywhere.

Todd Bertuzzi

You seem to see a lot of the older guys falling off right now,

You never know. Things weren't falling our way tonight, but they might Monday.

You're already falling in love with me. I'm gonna make you wish you were dead.

George Hamilton

You're 66, you finally get your head together and your ass is falling off.

You never want to be stuck in the middle, but I don't see them falling much further than that. They hurt themselves by losing two of their last three games, but their RPI is strong at 30 and they did a lot of great things this season.

Sam Peckinpah

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

Sam Kinison

You gotta keep falling in love. You gotta believe in it. What are you going to do... give sheep the vote?

Rumi

Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

Roland Barthes

Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.

Susan Orlean

The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness...

Susan Fletcher

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Susan Cheever

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Sufjan Stevens

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.