Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

Anne Rice

Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

Anne Rice

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Anne Rice

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

Anne Rice

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

Anna Julia Cooper

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Anna Deavere Smith

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anita Pallenberg

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

Anita Diament

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Anita Diament

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Andre Rieu

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

Andre Rieu

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Andre Malraux

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

Ameen Rihani

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

Ameen Rihani

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Ambrose Bierce

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Ambrose Bierce

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

Ambrose Bierce

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Ambrose Bierce

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

Anthony Hope

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Anthony Horowitz

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

Anthony Hopkins

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

Anthony Kiedis

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life.

Anthony Kiedis

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Anthony Hopkins

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

Alicia Witt

I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.

Alicia Silverstone

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

Alicia Keys

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Alicia Keys

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

Alice Thomas Ellis

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.