Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Ward Howe

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

Julian Casablancas

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

Julian Baggini

I never thought I was cut out for a life of crime. I even felt guilty when I accidentally stole a Subbuteo catalogue, thinking it was free. But everyone has an inner rebel, and mine has finally found a natural outlet. My crime of choice is that, with a heart as cold as ice and no care for what society thinks, I steal wireless computer network time.

Julian Baggini

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Julian Assange

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

Julian Barnes

One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.

Julian Barnes

There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

Ken Kesey

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

Keith Sweat

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

Keith Richards

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

Keith Richards

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

Keith Richards

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

Kato Kaelin

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

Katrina Kaif

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

Katie Couric

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

Kristan Higgins

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

Krist Novoselic

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

Kris Kristofferson

The heart is what matters most of all

Kris Carr

I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

Kristen Bell

It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can't marry the one they love and I can. That makes no sense

Kirstie Alley

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

Kirstie Alley

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

Kim Hunter

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

Kim Edwards

...bleak territory of the heart.

Kim Edwards

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

Kim Harrison

The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

Kim Harrison

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

Kim Harrison

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

Kim Harrison

Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.

Kim Harrison

You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

Kim Harrison

People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.

Kim Harrison

Just because I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve—” “You don’t even wear your heart in your chest,

Kenzo Tange

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.