Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Cormier

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Rob Thomas

It's the heart that really matters in the end.

Rob Sheffield

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Brydon

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Richard Paul Evans

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

Richard Paul Evans

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

Richard Paul Evans

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Richard P. Feynman

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

Richard P. Feynman

Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

Richard P. Feynman

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

Richard Holloway

Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

Richard John Neuhaus

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Richard Jackson

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Richard Hofstadter

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Robert M. Pirsig

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Emmet

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

Robert Farrar Capon

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

Robert E. Howard

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

Wes Anderson

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

Walt Disney

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

Walt Disney

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Walt Disney

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart...

Walt Disney

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

Walt Disney

The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

Walt Disney

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

Washington Irving

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Washington Irving

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Washington Irving

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Washington Irving

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...