Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

Diane Ackerman

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

Desiree Rogers

I'm a business person at heart.

Desi Arnaz

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Delta Burke

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

Demi Lovato

I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

Demi Lovato

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

Demi Lovato

Hearts can break and never make a sound.

Demi Lovato

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

Demi Lovato

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart

Dean Koontz

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Dean Koontz

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

Dean Koontz

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Dean Koontz

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Dean Koontz

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Dean Koontz

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Dean Koontz

All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

Dean Koontz

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

Dean Koontz

No one can tell you what your heart should feel.

Daniel Gillies

We're living in a time where movies are very unimportant. They're not leaving a footprint on your heart. We're going to the movies now and we're going, "Oh, man, that was cool! That was thrilling! That was a ride!" But, we're not walking away anymore thinking, "I just experienced something that could change the way I live."

Daniel Goleman

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

Daniel Handler

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

Daniel Handler

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

Daniel Handler

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

Daniel Handler

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

Daniel Handler

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

Daniel Handler

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

Daniel Handler

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

Daniel Handler

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.