Lovely Things Quotes - Page 2

• As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my award for Comedy Actress of the Year at the Glamour Awards and he said such lovely things. He's so charming and he listens to you and he's funny and sensitive and adorable. I can totally see why all the women fall for him.

  Joanna Page

  Fall, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• [Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Fall, Blow

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• The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.

  Molly Crabapple

  People, Lovely, Buchenwald

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Death, Darkness, Lovely

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character, and the editors and producers make suggestions and get notes and things. But you're talking about Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. They're two of the best people in the world. The notes are just things like, "This is absolutely brilliant."

  Mark Millar

  Character, Men, Rights

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Flower, Years, Ivory

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Rose, Lovely

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.36, e-artnow

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• Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

  William Butler Yeats

  Miracle, Lovely, Gone

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• In spring when maple buds are red,
  We turn the clock an hour ahead;
  Which means, each April that arrives,
  We lose an hour out of our lives.
  
  Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks
  Fly southward, back we turn the clocks,
  And so regain a lovely thing
  That missing hour we lost in spring.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Spring, Mean, Autumn

  Phyllis McGinley, “Daylight Savings Time”

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

  Richard Bach

  Sweet Love, Humble, Lovely

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.187, Dell

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• 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

  Leaving, Risk, Lovely

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• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
  Do not stand at my grave and weep,
  I am not there, I do not sleep.
  I am in a thousand winds that blow,
  I am the softly falling snow.
  I am the gentle showers of rain,
  I am the fields of ripening grain.
  I am in the morning hush,
  I am in the graceful rush
  Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
  I am the star shine of the night.
  I am in the flowers that bloom,
  I am in a quiet room.
  I am in the birds that sing,
  I am in each lovely thing.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry,
  I am not there. I do not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning

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

  L. Frank Baum

  Sweet, Children, Heart

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Thinking, House

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• Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Running, Dream, Song

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.95, Library of America

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• 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

  Yield, Lovely, Awful

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Lovely, Ifs

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• He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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• I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mean, Giving, Worry

  "Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe reveals he has given up drinking after long battle with alcohol" by Ben Todd, www.dailymail.co.uk. July 5, 2011.

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• So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

  John Steinbeck

  Lovely, World, Want

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.85, Penguin

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• You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Ideas

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• Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with." --The Looking Glass Wars

  Frank Beddor

  War, Glasses, Imagination

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• The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

  Ariana Franklin

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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