Lovely Quotes · Page 17

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I had eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed, so I have, like, make-up. How lovely is that?

— Debbie Rowe

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

— Steven Wilson

Me a lovely place out of town. Where you feel most at eas.e Well you are the one that I like. Always…

— Afrojack

“Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.”

— Samantha Young

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

— Colin Farrell

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as…

— Natalie Dormer

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a…

— Padma Lakshmi

I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -…

— Anthony Geary

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful,…

— Caitlin Moran

The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the…

— Megyn Kelly

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,…

— Don DeLillo

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in…

— Dwight Schultz

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is…

— Timothy Keller

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;…

— Erica Jong

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

— Stephen Chbosky

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

— James M. Barrie

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

— James Crumley

I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings.

— Ron Eldard

I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

— Shilpa Shetty

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

— Chinua Achebe

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy…

— Bat for Lashes

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if…

— Julia Child

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

— Aja Naomi King

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left…

— Vin Scully

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a…

— Toni Morrison

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

— Alice Sebold

Take my heart and hold it true,forever I'll stay close to you. Seize my words and listen well.then forever I will tell.

— Daniel Tembo

They say, what's meant to be finds a way... I believe in this too.. Coz I've got you !!!

— Archie

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

— L. Frank Baum

I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many…

— Lucy Davis

In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to…

— Neve McIntosh

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Daniel Woodrell

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

— Cassandra Clare

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Brian Sibley