Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Tony Levin

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

Tony Kushner

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Tom Wilson

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Tom Wopat

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

Tom Wolfe

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Tom Waits

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Tom Waits

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.

Steve Martin

I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

Steve Martin

Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.

Steve Martin

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Ballmer

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

Stephen King

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Stephen King

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

Stendhal

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Stendhal

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Stendhal

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Stendhal

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Stendhal

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Stanislaw Lem

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

Spike Milligan

Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

Sigmund Freud

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Sigmund Freud

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Sigmund Freud

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Sigmund Freud

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Sigmund Freud

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.