Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

Alice Walker

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Alice Walker

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Abraham Verghese

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Abraham Lincoln

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

Angus Young

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

Ani Difranco

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Ani Difranco

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

Ani Difranco

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Andy Goldsworthy

Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

Andy Goldsworthy

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Andrew Motion

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Andrew McMahon

The freeway is just like veins without a heart.

Amy Lowell

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

Amy Lee

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Amy Poehler

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Amy Poehler

The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

Amy Poehler

Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

Amy Poehler

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

Amy Poehler

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.

Allen Tate

I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.

Allen Tate

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

Allen Ginsberg

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

Allan McNish

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

Alison Goldfrapp

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.

Ann Curry

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Ann Druyan

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Ann Brashares

Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.

Ann Brashares

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Ann Brashares

She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.