Lovely Quotes

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

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.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

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

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

Lucy was 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!

Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.

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

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

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

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.

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

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

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

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.

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

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

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.

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.

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

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

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

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

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

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

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

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

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

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

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

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

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

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.