Heart Quotes

"When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right"

Craig Stevens, Athlete

"Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine"

Allison Krauss, Musician

"There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam"

Eliza Cook, Poet

"To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart"

Brian Jones, Musician

"I know my own heart to be entirely English"

Princess Anne, Royalty

"I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down"

Julia Ormond, Actress

"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book"

Neil Jordan, Director

"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience"

Will Adams, Explorer

"I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect"

Steve Earle, Musician

"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe"

Philip Guston, Artist

"Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

"On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain"

Jean Ingelow, Poet

"I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world"

Henry R. Luce, Editor

"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right"

Mike Epps, Comedian

"Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart"

Josh McDowell, Writer

"I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas"

Louie Anderson, Comedian

"It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

"I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out"

Chris Noth, Actor

"Politics is largely a matter of heart"

R. A. Butler, Politician

"The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please"

Jim Lampley, Celebrity

"I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart"

Huey Lewis, Musician

"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies"

Francis Wright, Activist

"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place"

Lance Armstrong, Athlete

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