Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
~By Diana Ross ~
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
~By Jacopo Sannazaro ~
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.
~By Tommy Bond ~
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
~By Martin Luther ~
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
~By Franz Liszt ~
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
~By Phyllis Theroux ~
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
~By James Allen ~
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
~By C. S. Forester ~
When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
~By Elizabeth II ~
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
~By King Hussein I ~
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
~By Mike Ditka ~
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
~By Lionel Blue ~
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
~By Chief Joseph ~
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
~By Homer ~
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
~By Victor Salva ~
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
~By Augusto Pinochet ~
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
~By Voltaire ~
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.
~By David Smith ~
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
~By John Wayne ~
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
~By Joseph C. Lincoln ~
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
~By Phil Jackson ~
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
~By Robert Schumann ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.
~By Nusrat F. A. Khan ~
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
~By Daniel Radcliffe ~
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~By Carlos Santana ~
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
~By Ed Townsend ~
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
~By Lalu Prasad Yadav ~
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
~By Tea Leoni ~
I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
~By Peter Bichsel ~
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
~By Cherrie Moraga ~
The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
~By Celine Dion ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
~By Randy Forbes ~
In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
~By Bonnie Tyler ~
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
~By Sean Booth ~
The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
~By Steve Ross ~
My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
~By Scott Stapp ~
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
~By Dick Cheney ~
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~By Dalai Lama ~
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~By John Ruskin ~
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~By Anthony de Mello ~
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
~By Robert Charles Winthrop ~
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
~By Conway Twitty ~
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.
~By Graham Taylor ~
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
~By Sitting Bull ~
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
~By Raymond Williams ~
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