Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dustin Hoffman

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

Christopher Plummer

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Anna Howard Shaw

Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

Connie Francis

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

Dan Savage

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Dan Savage

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

Common

Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?

David Levithan

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

David Letterman

Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

Andy Rooney

I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.

Orson Scott Card

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Billy Graham

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Bill Burr

I liked Jimmy Snuka, Tony Garea, Larry Zbyszko, Bob Backlund, Bruno Sammartino, Chief Strongbow, SD Jones (even though they never let him win), Captain Lou, Ted DiBiase...Uh...I'm forgetting some people...Greg Valentine. Chris Rock and Ric Flair are the best. Ric Flair is the king.

Berenice Bejo

Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'

Joan Rivers

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

Garry Shandling

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Kevin Bales

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

Khalil Gibran

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Khalil Gibran

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Helen Fielding

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

Emma Roberts

I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

Gladys Taber

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Ernest Hemingway

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

Ethel Merman

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Cassandra Clare

Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month. That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it-- We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace. The Clave can screw itself.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.