Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Herzog

A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.

Wayne White

When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.

Wale

If I woke up tomorrow and didn't have a dolla, as long as I have my heart, I can get it all over.

Walker Percy

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Wallace Stegner

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Samuel Richardson

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Samuel Richardson

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Samuel Richardson

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Samuel Richardson

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Samuel Richardson

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

Samuel Beckett

And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

Samuel Hoffenstein

THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

Samuel Lover

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

Samuel L. Jackson

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Samuel Beckett

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Samuel Beckett

Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

Salma Hayek

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

Salman Rushdie

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

Salman Rushdie

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Salman Rushdie

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

Salman Rushdie

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Salman Rushdie

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

Salman Rushdie

My heart broke open and history fell in.

Salman Rushdie

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

Salman Rushdie

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

Rudolph Valentino

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

Rudolfo Anaya

I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio

Rudolfo Anaya

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

Rudy Rucker

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

Whitney Houston

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

Wendy Cope

My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.