Love Quotes

"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well"

Oliver Herford, Author

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs"

Rebecca West, Author

"Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"I love the stage"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

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