Lovely Quotes:

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

- Adam Young

topic: Reality, Lovely, Owl, Past Present Future Love

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...

- Aidan Chambers

topic: Rivers, Lovely, Strange

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Writing, Feelings, Lovely

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....

- Alan Paton

source: Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Lovely, Singing, Cry The Beloved Country, Beloved Country

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...

- Alan Paton

topic: Running, Lovely, Hills

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

- Alan Titchmarsh

topic: Bored, Wife, Lovely

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

- Alessandro Del Piero

topic: Squad, Two, Lovely

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Clothes, Creative, Lovely

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Leaving, Risk, Lovely, Lovely Things

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

- Alice Sebold

source: The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

topic: Lovely, Gone, World, Lovely Bones

That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace. The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?" "Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.

- Ally Carter

topic: Men, Eyebrows, Lovely

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.

- Amanda Holden

topic: Baby, Lovely, Lovely Life

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Science, Illustration, Lovely, Gravitation

Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Order, Lovely, Together

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

- Amy Tan

topic: Feelings, Lovely, Good Advice, Deepest Feelings

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

- Amy Tan

topic: Lovely

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

- Andre Agassi

source: Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.154, Vintage

topic: Dream, Lovely, Awake

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

- Angela Carter

topic: Lovely, Mind, Tragedy, Impersonators

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

- Ann Landers

topic: Sunset, Lovely, Happy Marriage

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Garden, Lovely, Magic

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

- Anna Friel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Baby, Healthy, Lovely, Compact

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

- Anna Held

topic: Being Single, Lovely

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

- Anne Enright

topic: Lovely, Old Fashioned, Raised

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

- Anne Frank

topic: Thinking, Waiting, Lovely

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Self, Lovely, Doubt

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Believe, Men, Lovely, Dalai, Lama

Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good.

- Anne Ursu

topic: Boys, Lovely, Magic, Unruly

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Brother, Heaven, Lovely, Gulliver

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Inspiration, Thinking, Lovely, Clockwork

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Nature, Butterfly, Lovely

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

- Ariana Grande

topic: Thinking, Jeans, Lovely, Petite, Ripped Jeans

My music is not lovely

- Arnold Schoenberg

topic: Lovely, Music Is

What a lovely thing a rose is!

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Rose, Lovely, Lovely Things

The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Stars, Lovely, Shadow, Time Of Day

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspiring, Ideas, Lovely, Old Fashion, Happy Girl

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

- Audrey Meadows

topic: Sorry, Guy, Lovely

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Nice, Apology, Lovely

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

- Bea Arthur

source: TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

topic: Baseball, Lovely, Fields, Wrigley Field

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.

- Ben Marcus

topic: Sorry, Impact, Lovely

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

- Ben Whishaw

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Lovely, Streets

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Gratitude, Lovely, Wake Up, Lovely Day

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.133, Open Road Media

topic: Horse, Emotional, Lovely, Cowboy Wisdom, Cowboys And Horses

With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Eye, Curves, Lovely

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

- Bill Geist

topic: Fire, Feelings, Lovely

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

- Bill Nighy

topic: Adorable, Lovely, Emma, Lovely Person

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

- Billie Piper

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Lovely, Groups, Littles

I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

- Billy Campbell

topic: Thinking, Lovely, Reminiscing, Discs

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

- Bob Fosse

topic: Sarcastic, Lovely, Figures

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.

- Bob Seger

topic: Long, Dancer, Lovely, Social Taboos

Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Wwe, Lovely, Twenties, Sapphires, Foursomes

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Museums, Lovely, Walking

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Cells, Lovely, Paper

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

- Brian Clough

topic: Years, Rivers, Lovely

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

- Brian Sibley

topic: Memories, Lovely

Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.

- Britt Ekland

topic: Kids, Long, Lovely, Chihuahua, Tequila

There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you've got bargains, and it's lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you're rich.

- Bruce Greenwald

topic: Bad Day, Thinking, Lovely

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Support, Lovely, Support Me, Lovely Family

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Lovely, Certain

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

- Cameron Dokey

source: Cameron Dokey, Tracy Lynn, Liz Braswell (2015). “Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

topic: Princess, Lovely, Dawn, Little Princess

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Struggle, Fire, Lovely, Struggle For Survival, Quake

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

- Camille Pissarro

source: In a letter to his son Lucien, 26 July 1892, as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 146, 1963.

topic: Beautiful, Lovely, Littles

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

- Cara Delevingne

topic: Talking, Joy, Lovely, Mario, Talking To Him

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

- Carey Mulligan

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Lovely, Want

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Ideas, Lovely, Fundamentals, Suppression, Solar System

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Sky, Tree, Lovely

Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Giving, Missing, Lovely, Hollowness

It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

- Casey Legler

topic: Judging, Lovely, Dresses

I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

- Casey Legler

topic: Beautiful, Judging, Lovely, Meaning Something

Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming up.

- Celia Rivenbark

topic: Lunch, Lovely, Anthem, Lovely Lady, Hmmm

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Love, Clouds, Lovely

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Couple, Years, Lovely

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

- Charles Godfrey Leland

source: Charles Godfrey Leland (2015). “Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land”, p.142, Library of Alexandria

topic: Bravery, Lovely, May

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

- Charlie Cox

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Lovely, Actresses, Claire

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

- Christian Dior

topic: Women, Flower, Lovely, Lovely Things

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Heart, Lovely, Care, Dear Lord

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

- Christine Baranski

topic: Men, Humanity, Lovely, Lovely Man

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Light, Lovely, Ends

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Light, Giving, Lovely

I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

- Christopher Parker

topic: Lovely, Fans, Want, Fan Mail

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Clancy Brown

source: "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

topic: Lovely, Burn Out, Rock Song, Burned Out, Fade Away

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

- Clive Owen

source: "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

topic: Writing, Character, Lovely

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

- Colin Baker

topic: Doctors, Lovely, Done

I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

- Connor Franta

source: "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.

topic: Lovely, Want

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

- Conrad Aiken

source: Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Lovely, Pennies, Youth, Lovely Things

Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Sadness, Yellow, Lovely, Slender

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark

- Countee Cullen

source: Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

topic: Dark, Night, Lovely

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

- Cynthia Rylant

source: Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dancer, Tree, Lovely

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

- Cyril Cusack

topic: Simple, Lovely, Stories

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

- D. B. Weiss

source: "Game Of Thrones actor J.J. Murphy passes away" by Rob Leane, www.denofgeek.com. August 12, 2014.

topic: Men, Lovely, Watches, Lovely Man

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: People, Lovely, Language

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

- Dan Millman

topic: Believe, Lovely, Answers, Peaceful Warrior

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Strong, Lovely, Sound

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

- Daniel Woodrell

topic: Dark, Long, Lovely

I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

- Dannie Abse

source: 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)

topic: Healing, Rose, Lovely

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.

- Darby Stanchfield

topic: Ideas, Lovely, Theatre, Live Theatre

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

- Darren Shan

topic: Whales, Lovely, Males

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Lovely, Citizens, Limits

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

- David Pleat

topic: Football, Careers, Lovely

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

- Dawn Powell

source: Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”

topic: Lovely, Together, Lovely Day

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Hurt, Eye, Lovely, Hills And Valleys

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

- Debbie Harry

topic: New Year, Years, Lovely

He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.

- Derek Landy

topic: Glasses, Car, Lovely

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Photography, Character, Lovely

Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.

- Dianna Agron

topic: People, Lovely, Energy

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

- Don DeLillo

topic: Humanity, Historical, Lovely

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

- Doris Roberts

topic: Awards, Lovely, Shows

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

- Douglas Pagels

topic: Lonely, Journey, Lovely

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Spiritual, Personality, Lovely

One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people.

- Duane Allman

topic: Men, People, Lovely

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

- Duke Snider

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Air, Lovely, Balls

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

- E. L. James

topic: Mean, People, Lovely

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

- E. M. Forster

topic: School, Lovely, World

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

- Ed Helms

topic: People, Lovely, Thailand, Heat And Humidity, Humidity

In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

- Edgar Wallace

topic: Lovely, Devil, Pits, Ells, Charcoal

Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Death, Darkness, Lovely, Lovely Things

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

- Edward Lear

source: 'The Jumblies' (1871)

topic: Pigs, Owl, Lovely, Rice, Stilton

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

- Edward Norton

source: "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.

topic: Lovely, Prove

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

- Eleanor Porter

source: Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

topic: Fun, Play, Lovely

I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didnt speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.

- Elena Roger

topic: Party, Lovely, Too Much, Paige

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Long, Lovely, Doe, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

topic: Rain, Sky, Lovely

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

- Elizabeth Jane Howard

topic: Sleep, Rainy Day, Lovely, Sleep Late

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

- Elizabeth Kata

source: Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”

topic: Flower, Lovely, Trash

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Birthday, Lovely, Forget The Past, Old Birthday, 21st Birthday

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

- Emily Carr

topic: Men, Giving, Lovely, Embalming, Life And Beauty

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Regret, Flower, Lovely

If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

- Eugenia Price

source: EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”

topic: Character, Personality, Lovely

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Play, Lovely, Agonizing

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

- Fay Wray

topic: Book, Lovely, Letters

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

source: Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.52, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Wall, Ivy, Lovely, Beaks, Trill

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

- Francis Beaumont

source: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336

topic: Sweet, Lovely, Melancholy, Dainty

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

- Franz Marc

source: 1914-15 Aphorisms.

topic: Lovely, Tradition

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

- Fred Bear

topic: Opportunity, People, Lovely

The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

- Gail Caldwell

topic: Lovely, Honor, Triumph, Cunninghams, Mrs Dalloway

Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.” “I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,” explained Alexia. “These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Husband, Track, Lovely, Delayed

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

- Gayle Forman

topic: Lovely, Dying, Realizing

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

- Gene Roddenberry

topic: Airplane, Feelings, Lovely

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

- George du Maurier

source: George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

topic: Lovely, Female, Shapes

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

- George Eliot

topic: Moving, Lovely, Arms, Prettiness, Lovely Woman

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

- George MacDonald

topic: Hate, Lovely, Hated

On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.

- George Mikes

topic: Weather, Two, Lovely, Lovely Day

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

- George Santayana

topic: Lovely, Promise, Ruins, Gothic Architecture

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

- George Wald

topic: Love Life, Mirrors, Lovely

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Air, Water, Lovely, Wales

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

- Giles Andreae

topic: Moon, Lovely, Want, Imagine That

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

- Gillian Flynn

source: Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.227, Broadway Books

topic: Dream, Lovely

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

- Gioachino Rossini

topic: Music, Lovely, Awful, Wagner

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

- Giorgos Seferis

source: Giorgos Seferis, “Mythistorema”

topic: Eye, Lovely, Looks

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

- Giuseppe Mazzini

topic: Equality, Lovely, Liberty, Liberty And Equality

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

- Glenn Ligon

topic: Lovely, Sensual, Looks

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

- Goldie Hawn

topic: Crazy, Men, Lovely, Lovely Man

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

- Graham Coxon

topic: Guitar, Lovely, Acoustics, Cambridge, Acoustic Guitar

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

- Graham Norton

topic: Successful, Lovely, Hot

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Lovely, Stories, Life Is

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Home, Lovely, Sitting

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

- Hassan Nasrallah

topic: Nice, People, Lovely

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Sleep, Miracle, Lovely, Sweet Sleep, Good Sleep

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Lovely

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Forgiveness, Ideas, Lovely

We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.

- Howard Zinn

topic: School, Government, Lovely, Junior High, Three Branches Of Government

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

- Howell Raines

topic: Fun, Lovely, Tribute

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

- Hugh Mackay

topic: Lovely, Magic, Inevitable

China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.

- Hugh Sidey

topic: Uncles, Talking, Lovely, Pork Chops, Favorite Uncle

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

- Isaac Barrow

source: Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.145

topic: Flower, Yield, Lovely, Common Experience

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

- Isaac Hanson

topic: Cities, Lovely, World

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Mean, Lovely, Missed You, I've Missed You

The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Warrior, Doors, Lovely, Trainees

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.15, Knopf

topic: Stars, Lovely, Constellations, Unlearn

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Thinking, Lovely, Hallucinations

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

- Jacki Weaver

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Lovely, Culture

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

- Jackie Collins

topic: Lovely, Bahamas, Funny Travel

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Mother, Wife, Lovely, Wives And Mothers, First Lady

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Heart, Feet, Lovely, Million Little Pieces

An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

- James Keller

topic: Cities, Atmosphere, Lovely, Arabian

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Thinking, Air, Lovely, Wendy, Up In The Air

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls...

- James M. Barrie

topic: Girl, Thinking, Lovely

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Courage, Children, Lovely

Try not to try to hard, it's just a lovely ride;)

- James Taylor

topic: Lovely, Trying

As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.

- Jamie Oliver

source: "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

topic: Laughing, Lovely, Kitchen, Cool Places

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

- Jane Badler

topic: Lovely, Murder, Fantastic, Angela

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

- Janet McTeer

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Home, Garden, Lovely

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: People, Guy, Lovely, Holier Than Thou

Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

- Jean Ingelow

topic: Ocean, Land, Lovely

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Summer, June, Lovely

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

- Jeff Goldblum

topic: Art, Real, Lovely, Real Work

[On cancer] One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

- Jennifer Beals

topic: Cancer, Lovely, Goes On, Selling Products

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

- Jennifer Ellison

source: "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

topic: Kids, House, Lovely, Big Houses

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love....

- Jennifer Niven

source: Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.300, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Lovely

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

- Jenny Agutter

topic: Lovely, Albums, Looks

Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Lovely, Chance, Turns

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Yield, Lovely, Attention, Lovely Things

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

- Jenny Holzer

source: Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

topic: Lovely, Chance, Turns

They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

- Jeremy Brett

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Lovely, Males, Male Friendship, Platonic Relationship

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

- Jessica Brown Findlay

topic: Lovely, Strange, Realizing

There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again

- Jimmy Armfield

topic: Play, Lovely, Valleys

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

- Joan Wickersham

source: "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.

topic: Optimism, Lovely, Possibility

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

- Joanna Baillie

source: Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

topic: Writing, Lovely, Magic

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

topic: Heart, Lovely, Tears, Smile And Tears

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

- Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

topic: Lovely, Quality, Ships

If I could sing, it would be lovely.

- John Deacon

topic: Lovely, Would Be