Love Quotes

I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

~ Daniel Smith

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

~ Tom Shadyac

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

~ Sammy Davis

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.

~ Gene Wilder

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

~ David Mccullough

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

~ Jack Nicholson

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

~ Celine Dion

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

~ Herschel Walker

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

~ Jessye Norman

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

~ George Michael

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

~ Sammy Davis

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

~ Nene Leakes

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

~ Philip Sidney

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

~ F. Sionil José

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

~ Carol Ann Duffy

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

~ Wallace Stevens

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

~ Wyclef Jean

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

~ Erica Jong

I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.

~ Jessica Steen

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

~ Chinua Achebe

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

~ Patti Smith

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

~ Robert Pinsky

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

~ Maya Angelou

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

~ Stephen Greenblatt

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

~ Martin Amis

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

~ Patti Smith

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

~ J.k. Rowling

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

~ Helen Fisher

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

~ Robin Wright

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

~ Umberto Eco

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.

~ Michael Dirda

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

~ Jewel

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

~ Billy Collins

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

~ Gary Oldman