Love Affair Quotes - Page 9

• For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Long, Cooking, Sublime

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Stupid, Nice

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• Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Marriage, Affair

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• At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspiration, Writing, Night

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• Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, America, Romance

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• Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Doe, Needs, Elements

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• Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Men, Fire, Once Upon A Time

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• If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

  Simon Pegg

  Life Changing, Fate, Important

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

  David Levithan

  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Song, Hurt

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• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

  David Nicholls

  Song, Falling In Love, Book

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• Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Blind, Affair, Kitten

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis”, p.15, Booklassic

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• The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

  Brennan Manning

  Philosophy, Hands, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.135, Multnomah

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• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  Lisa See

  Love, Dream, Disappointment

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• I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

  Alice Waters

  Summer, Childhood, Tomatoes

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• It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

  François Lelord

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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• It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

  Brian Topp

  Men, Two, Stories

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• Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

  François Lelord

  Falling In Love, Expression, Giving

  "Ideas for modern living: love" by François Lelord, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

  Elvis Presley

  Friendship, Heartache, Affair

  Song: That's When Your Heartaches Begin

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• The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Affair, Truth Is

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• You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

  Joshua Bell

  Love Is, Affair, Knows

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• If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

  Elvis Presley

  Relationship, Baby, Causes

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• Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

  Ian Dury

  Hyenas, Affair, Nina

  Song: Billericay Dickie

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• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  Manny Farber

  Sweet, Golf, Men

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• I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!

  Prabal Gurung

  Beautiful, Thinking, Dresses

  "Prabal Gurung on His Love Affair with Women, SS13 Campaign, and Target Collection". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. January 31, 2013.

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