Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Walt Whitman

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

Walt Whitman

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest.

Saul Bellow

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Williams

My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.

Saul Williams

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.

Saul Bellow

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

Saul Bellow

Love is the most potent cosmetic ...

Saul Bellow

An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.

Saul Bellow

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Sarah Fielding

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

Sarah Jessica Parker

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Sarah Jessica Parker

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Sarah Dessen

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Sarah Dessen

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

Sarah Dessen

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Sarah Dessen

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

Sarah Dessen

Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

Sarah Dessen

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Sarah Dessen

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

Sarah Dessen

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

Sarah Dessen

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Sarah Dessen

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

Sarah Dessen

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Sarah Dessen

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Sarah Dessen

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Sandra Bullock

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

Sandra Bullock

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!