Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Schumann

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

Robert Smith

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

Robert Pinsky

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Robert Pozen

Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.

Robert Rauschenberg

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

Roger Caras

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

Satoru Iwata

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

Satish Kumar

I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

Sargent Shriver

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

Sarah Waters

Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

Sarah Waters

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

Sarah Waters

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Sarah McLachlan

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

Sarah MacLean

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Sarah MacLean

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

Sarah MacLean

But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded. It seemed there was such a thing as a broken heart.

Sarah MacLean

I feel able to comfort myself emotionally, and this keeps my heart open.

Sarah MacLean

I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.

Zhuangzi

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

Zhuangzi

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Zhuangzi

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.

Zhuangzi

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Zhuangzi

When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

Yvette Nicole Brown

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

Yousuf Karsh

My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

Yves Saint Laurent

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

William Harvey

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

William H. Macy

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.

William Hazlitt

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

William Hazlitt

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

William Hazlitt

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.