The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
For reasons which I can’t logically explain, in all of the films I’ve done, I’ve ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I’m not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
Since childhood, I’ve been a fan of mysteries – ‘Nancy Drew’ lovers unite! – but ‘Vertigo’ struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!
Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.
I can’t understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise – whatever appeals to you.
A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
The pleasure in lovers’ gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.
‘Romeo And Juliet’ is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that’s fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.
Sita and Ram were two strong individuals, and their love for each other is an example for lovers across the globe.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess ‘outer beauty’ and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.
Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up – they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.
I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.
I wanted to only collab with women for ‘Lovers Holiday.’
Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It’s like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you’re bound to be disappointed.
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
I don’t want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don’t just want to be, ‘He dresses cool’ or ‘He dresses crazy.’ You’re going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.
We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters.
See, our country has certain problems. Certain psychological problems. We are dynasty lovers. We love the fact that this guy comes from this family and we start giving them concessions.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ‘Is there someone new?’
The ‘low’ quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I’m not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
British music lovers in general are dreadfully concerned about being cool, but I’m quite happy to grab uncool by the horns at any opportunity.
Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
I have gone out with younger men, and they’re great fun; they’ve got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers.
Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.
Women are amazing lovers.
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don’t get to watch. When I’m part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.
I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.
I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.
I would say that artists have to be good lovers.
Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.
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