Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ciardi

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

M. Scott Peck

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

M. Scott Peck

Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

Lusia Strus

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

John Boehner

The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

You won't have to worry about the stamp falling off.

All of a sudden we are paying $3 at the pump and SUVs are falling out of fashion. Delphi feels that pinch just as much as General Motors.

All housing indicators point to a slowdown that is in full swing: falling home sales, rising inventories, and now falling starts and permits.

Emo Philips

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when I fall in love with it, almost everyone else is falling in love with that same piece. Getting the crack at doing that thing that, in my soul, I know I have to do it, that's the role.

James Altucher

Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.

Norman Mailer

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

Orhan Pamuk

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

Orhan Pamuk

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.

Orhan Pamuk

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Orhan Pamuk

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Novala Takemoto

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender

Emily Bett Rickards

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

Emily Giffin

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

Emily Giffin

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...

Emily Giffin

I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

Lynda Carter

It's not about guys falling all over themselves, because she would just whack them on the head and say 'Get a grip!'

It's been a little overwhelming since it's the first time we've done it. But everything just kept falling into place.

Tale of two nines. It started falling into place on the back nine. I made a few mistakes on the front; a ugly front nine but managed a good score out of a poor start.

It's tough because we did better than most people expected. But the shots we missed today were the shots that were falling the last two games.

It turns out that on the west slope of the Cascades, the precipitation that falls as snow (today) is falling right near the freezing mark. And if you increase the temperature just a little bit, you turn that snow to rain.

It turned out to be more than just me falling down over and over again.

Lindsay Whalen

I twisted my ankle. My whole left side is falling apart,

The volatility measures are falling with this snapback and there is a short-term shift in psychology -- there's a lot of bargain-hunting going on out there.

They weren't falling for them and I think part of that was we got them a little tired. We were running up and down the court; we rotated about ten guys in and that helped us quite a bit.

It was never lust - it was falling in love with you....

We had another rough third quarter. That has been our killer all year. Our shots weren't falling but they were playing good defense, too.

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.