e. e. cummings Quotes

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

e. e. cummings

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Hope
  • Spring
  • Poland

• If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Great
  • Man

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Hero
  • Romantic

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Guy
  • Feel
  • Romantic

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Life
  • Good
  • Dark

• Taha rose from his chair feeling angry for the first time since they...

  

  Zakaria Tamer
  • Feeling
  • Angry
  • Rose

• With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Running
  • Stop

• A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed. It's cold; it's winter.' But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, 'I'm giving you my favorite pair.'

  

  Ella Henderson
  • She
  • Black
  • Giving

• The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Freedom
  • Religion

• Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Romantic
  • Spring
  • Rose