Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Cole Porter

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

Alfred Hitchcock

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Orhan Pamuk

What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.

Francis Chan

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

Jim Butcher

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Grace Kelly

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

Honore de Balzac

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Pico Iyer

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

Haruki Murakami

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Mason Cooley

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

Marat Safin

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

Roger Ebert

To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water.

Robert Zemeckis

I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.

William Bernbach

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

Simon Beaufoy

I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

Shahrukh Khan

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

Swami Vivekananda

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Tommy Chong

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

Stephen Dunn

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

V. S. Pritchett

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

Suzi Quatro

Nothing heals like love and time

W. H. Auden

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep