Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Disney

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

Vita Sackville-West

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Walt Whitman

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

Walt Whitman

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

Saul Bellow

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

Saul Bellow

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

Saul Bellow

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Saul Williams

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

Saul Williams

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

Saul Williams

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

Saul Williams

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Saul Alinsky

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

Saul Alinsky

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

Saul Bellow

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

Sarah Hall

At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

Sarah Dessen

But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

Sarah Dessen

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

Sarah Dessen

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Sarah Dessen

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

Sarah Dessen

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

Sarah Dessen

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Sarah Dessen

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

Sarah Dessen

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

Sarah Dessen

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

Sarah Dessen

Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....

Sarah Dessen

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Sandra Bullock

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Sandra Bullock

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Roselyn Sanchez

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

Rohit Sharma

There is a place deep inside every single on of our hearts that knows all the answers to our biggest questions.

Roland Barthes

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.