Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Plath

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Rosanne Cash

Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing. When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

Ron Suskind

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Rupert Grint

So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.

Rumi

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Rumi

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

Rumi

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

Rumi

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.

Rumi

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Rumi

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

Rumi

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

Rumi

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

Rumi

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

Tom Robbins

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Tom Robbins

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Tom Robbins

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

Tom Robbins

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

Tom Felton

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.

Todd Haynes

I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.

Toby Keith

Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.

Toby Keith

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

Toby Keith

And yet this is farther than I've ever fell; You know me much too well. Funny it don't feel like we just met. It didn't take much time. Forever's more than crossed my mind, and we haven't even said 'I love you' yet.

Toby Keith

My mind is cautious but my heart is in a hurry.

Toby Keith

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

Steve Jobs

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

Steve Case

Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

Stephen Sondheim

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Stephen Fry

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

Stephen Fry

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

St. Jerome

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

St. Jerome

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

St. Jerome

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Sri Aurobindo

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.