Heart Quotes

"I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light"

Linda Hamilton, Actress

"I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound"

Gerry Beckley, Musician

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain"

George Szell, Composer

"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference"

Greg Lake, Musician

"My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life"

Elizabeth Dole, Politician

"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life"

Diana Ross, Actress

"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that"

Dick Dale, Musician

"But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes"

Paul Reiser, Comedian

"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds"

Elspeth Huxley, Writer

"I grew up in the heart of the Depression"

Bob Cousy, Athlete

"She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all"

Emmy Rossum, Actress

"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song"

Konrad von Gesner, Scientist

"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart"

Hans Berger, Scientist

"My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"I acted my heart out"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms"

Christiaan Barnard, Scientist

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn"

Anna Akhmatova, Poet

"I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart"

Diana Ross, Actress

"I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart"

Bobby Womack, Musician

"I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery"

Carre Otis, Model

"You have to think with the heart"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"Memory always obeys the commands of the heart"

Antoine Rivarol, Journalist

"It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks"

Carre Otis, Model

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it"

Christy Romano, Actress

"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains"

Du Fu, Poet

"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together"

Alfre Woodard, Actress

"I'm just a true Irish boy at heart"

Colin Farrell, Actor

"You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern"

Barbara Deming, Author

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