Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Matt Bomer

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

Mary McAleese

The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.

Mary Lou Retton

What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.

Mary Lou Retton

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

Mary Lou Retton

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Marvin Hagler

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

Marvin Gaye

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

Marvin J. Ashton

Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

Mark Twain

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Nicholas Stoller

I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.

Nicholas Sparks

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

Nicholas Sparks

Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart

Nicholas Sparks

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Nicholas Sparks

If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart

Nicholas Sparks

I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.

Nicholas Sparks

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

Nicholas Sparks

Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

Nicholas Sparks

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.

Nicholas Sparks

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

Nicholas Sparks

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

Nawal El Saadawi

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

Neal A. Maxwell

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9).

Natasha Bedingfield

My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.

Natasha Lyonne

I am a hooker with a heart of gold.

Natasha Lyonne

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

Natasha Lyonne

Life is not for the faint of heart.

Mstislav Rostropovich

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Mr. T

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Muhammad Iqbal

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

Muhammad Ali

My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.