Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another – that is everything.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Base

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Blood

• I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Day
  • Like
  • Start

• I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Love
  • Books
  • Unknown

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Women
  • Love
  • For Him

• I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Army

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Success
  • Perfection
  • Esteem

• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Energy
  • For Her

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Family
  • Love
  • Hate

• The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • English
  • Language
  • Special

• Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Writing
  • Society

• Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Psychologist

• One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another – that is everything.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Marvel