Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. D. Salinger

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

J. D. Salinger

Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.

J. I. Packer

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

J. I. Packer

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

Ivana Milicevic

You don't always marry the love of your life.

Israel Horovitz

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

Isobelle Carmody

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Israel Zangwill

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Italo Calvino

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Isabelle Adjani

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Isabella Rossellini

Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.

Isadora Duncan

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

Isadora Duncan

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Irving Penn

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

Irving Stone

Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.

Irving Stone

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Jack Ma

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.

Jack Nicholson

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Jack Nicholson

You make me want to be a better man.

Jack Kingston

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Jack Johnson

It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.

Jack Johnson

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

Jack Kerouac

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Jack Kerouac

Eager for bread and love.

Jack Kerouac

Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

Jack Kerouac

I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

Jack Kerouac

What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.

Jack Kerouac

We agreed to love each other madly.

Jack Kerouac

Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. Be in love with your life.

Jack Kerouac

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...

Jack Benny

I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

Jack Black

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.