Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard E. Grant

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

Renee O'Connor

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

Renee Fleming

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

Renee Fleming

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

Thornton Wilder

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Thomas Otway

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

Thomas Nashe

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Thomas More

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

Thomas Paine

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Thomas Paine

These are the days that try man's heart.

Thomas Paine

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.

Thomas Paine

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Thomas Paine

Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.

Thomas Paine

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

Thomas Paine

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts...

Thomas Paine

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

Thomas Paine

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Thomas Hooker

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Thomas Hood

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

Thomas Hood

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

Thomas F. Wilson

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

Thomas Browne

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Thomas Browne

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

Timothy Garton Ash

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

Samantha Power

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Rupert Brooke

Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rumi

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope...

Rumi

Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.

Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

Rumi

Love Came.... and became like blood in my body. It rushed through my veins and encircled my Heart. Everywhere I looked, I saw One Thing.... Love's Name written on my limbs, on my left palm, on my forehead, on the back of my neck, on my right big toe... Oh, my friend, all that you see of me is just a shell, and the rest belongs to Love.

Rumi

There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

Rumi

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

Rumi

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.