Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Gloria Steinem

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

Giorgio Armani

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

J. M. Coetzee

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

J. K. Rowling

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

Marya Hornbacher

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Margery Allingham

The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.

Oswald Chambers

When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Paul Auster

Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

Patrick J. Adams

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

Julia Quinn

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Leonardo da Vinci

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Mo Ibrahim

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

Miyamoto Musashi

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miriam Makeba

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

Preity Zinta

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

Preity Zinta

It is superficial to fall in love with someone looking at their face. To me I need to discover the person. I would never look at someone and exclaim - He is the one!

Rachel McAdams

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Rachel Perry

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

Nevil Shute

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Mike Nichols

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

Jim Cummings

I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all.

Jenna Jameson

Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.

Glenn Beck

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

Harold Bloom

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Jesse Ventura

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Kristin Hannah

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Kristin Hannah

Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.

Mohsin Hamid

Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

Mike Birbiglia

Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream