Love Quotes

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
– Cameron Crowe
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
– Gabriel Byrne
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
– Stendhal
Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
– John Sununu
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
– Hannah Arendt
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
– Erica Jong
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
– Michael Pollan
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
– Jon Bon Jovi
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.
– Connie Stevens
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
– Eminem
People who love science fiction really do love sex.
– Susie Bright
People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
– Gary Oldman
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.
– Giancarlo Esposito
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
– Megan Fox
People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
– Ellen DeGeneres
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
– Mick Jagger
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
– Annie Dillard
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
– Janelle Monae
People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.
– Michael Symon
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
– Jeff Ross
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
– David Duchovny
People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
– Padma Lakshmi
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
– Lenny Kravitz
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
– Keri Russell
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
– Julien Benda
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
– Wallace Shawn
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
– Robert Morgan
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
– Jon Meacham
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
– Dennis Prager
Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
– Sissy Spacek
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
– Tom Hiddleston
Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!
– Mary-Kate Olsen
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
– April Winchell
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
– Mason Cooley
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
– George Bernard Shaw
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
– Mary Antin
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
– Carla Gugino
One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.
– Steven Seagal
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
– Walter Pater
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
– Danica McKellar
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
– Gustave Flaubert
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
– June Carter Cash
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
– Bobby Sherman
One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.
– Brandy Norwood
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
– Kathy Acker
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
– Janis Joplin
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
– Jackie Chan
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.
– Katy Perry
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
– Alexander McCall Smith
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
– Johnny Cash
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
– Greg Bear
Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
– Gary Ross
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
– Chris Christie
Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.
– Karen Russell
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
– Richard Dawkins
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
– Billy Graham
Not even old age knows how to love death.
– Sophocles
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
– Jo Nesbo
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
– Jeff Bridges
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
– Dorothy L. Sayers
None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
– John Milton
No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.
– Kathy Griffin
No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.
– Lily Collins
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
– Michael J. Fox
No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.
– Stephenie Meyer
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
– Alan Watts
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
– Cesare Pavese
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
– May Sarton
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
– Lee Iacocca
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
– George Chakiris
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
– Edvard Munch
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
– Lawrence Welk
Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
– Cynthia Heimel
Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
– David Seabury
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
– Thomas Szasz
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
– Nicholas Sparks
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
– Michael Caine
My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.
– Lucy Hale
My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.
– Alanis Morissette
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
– Shakira
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
– Alanna Ubach
My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.
– Alexandra Kerry
My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
– Kenny Loggins
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
– Steven Seagal
My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
– Vanessa Hudgens
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
– Vivien Leigh
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
– Barack Obama
My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
– James Wood
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'
– Jerry Saltz
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
– Melissa Gilbert
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
– Michelle Obama
My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.
– Ronnie Dunn
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
– David Blaine
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
– Rachael Ray