Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Williams

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Erica Durance

Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.

Erica Jong

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

Erica Jong

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

Erica Jong

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Eric Clapton

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave...

Enya

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

Enya

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

Eoin Colfer

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

Eoin Colfer

Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

George Eliot

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Hard is the heart that loveth nought In May.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

Franz Wright

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

Franz Schubert

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Franz Liszt

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Franz Liszt

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,

Fred Allen

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

Frank Iero

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

George Hickenlooper

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

George Herbert

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

George Herbert

A small heart hath small desires.

George Herbert

A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

Christopher Atkins

I'm really a romantic at heart.