Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karin Slaughter

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

Michael Drayton

Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.

Neil Gaiman

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

Miranda Hart

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Matthew McConaughey

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

Pablo Neruda

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Paulo Coelho

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. I've fallen in love many times... always with you. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Paulo Coelho

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

Marlee Matlin

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

Max Lucado

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Matthew Yglesias

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

Michelle Williams

From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.

Michael Jordan

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

Kina Grannis

There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point. . .since it is just an arbitrary day. . .why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

James J. Gibson

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Helen Fisher

A world without love is a deadly place.

Helen Fisher

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

Hector Elizondo

Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic.

Heber J. Grant

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry Ford

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

James Altucher

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Johnny Cash

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

Elizabeth Smart

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

Stedman Graham

How can I go out there and create value?

Thomas Friedman

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

William Shatner

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Will Estes

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.