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“I was proud of my work with Yakov Isaevich, and he of me. Despite our good relationship, however, I kept my “other” mathematical life – my work with Fuchs and Feigin and all of that – secret from him as I did from most other people. It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”
Edward Frenkel (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been an animal lover my whole life and I consider myself environmentalist, and often the two subjects come together.”
Jorja Fox (born 1968) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ADI Jorja Fox press conference, Austin Texas,” interview with (14 July 2008).
“The lover of romance may lie in the sun, caring not for the time of day and content to watch the butterflies that cross his blue sky on the way from one flower to another. But the historian is an entomologist who must be stirring. He must catch the moths, which are his facts, in the net which is his memory, and he must fasten them upon his paper with sharp pins, which are dates.”
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..”
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of De Vlaminck; as cited in Vlaminck, Klaus G. Perls, The Hyperion Press, New York 1941, p. 51
“I've been an animal lover all my life, and the more I learned of the torture that animals go through in the name of fashion, I just think it's so unnecessary; it's unbelievable to me. I’m blessed to team up with my pageant sisters to take a united stand and to tell the pageant industry not to support the fur industry.”
Susie Castillo (born 1979) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miss Universe official promises surprises that could shake up the whole show", LasVegasSun.com (13 June 2013).
“I'm an animal lover and my two cats are my world, so I don't wear any fur. I don't support the fur industry. And I'm not really into animal prints either, I just don't like the idea of me saying "I'm wearing a big cat today.”
Alyssa Campanella (born 1990) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet the former Miss USA turned fashion blogger, Alyssa Campanella, who is dominating NYFW", interview with (February 11, 2016).
“I wanted to get involved with [PETA’s anti-fur campaign] because first off, I’m an animal lover. I have a dog. And I couldn’t imagine someone just taking my dog’s fur or skinning my dog alive or killing him just to be selfish. … If you have a heart, I’m pretty sure it’ll touch you to see how these animals suffer.”
Brandon Flowers (American football) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The NFL's Brandon Flowers Says, 'Don't Be Selfish'—Be Fur-Free", video interview with PETA (11 December 2014).
“I like to be with my partner in the bed, to ride my Norton - and maybe it doesn't like me, and that's why I'm on the floor so often -, to play sports, to be with my friends and chat. And nature. It's wonderful to be lost in the desert, or between the waves over a surf board. I'm a life lover.”
Keanu Reeves (born 1964) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 1995
“And you know the sun's settin' fast And just like they say nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye but hold on to your lover. 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town? Goodnight.”
Iris DeMent (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What sweeter than this in the world! Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved. That was all sorrow, this is all joy Those were all words, this is all reality.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) said by 1049 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were and still are recreating our own reality. Our vision is that we have been a hard working, courageous people. There have been three prevalent images of the chicano in this country— 1) the pachuco, a violent, urban vato loco; 2) the farmworker, a passive peon, Don Juan-Yaqui brujo type; and 3) el Spanish grandee or Latin lover type.”
Luis Valdez (born 1940) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what he aimed to portray in his early works in “An Interview with Luis Valdez” in LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW (Spring 1982)
“Sometimes stories just need something to hold on to, and form is a way of doing that. Sometimes you’re looking at a story and you’re like, What comes next? But if I say I have to add an item to the list, another lover or an episode of SVU…it’s easier.”
Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how she constructs stories in “Carmen Maria Machado’s New Memoir Fills In The Gray Areas Of Abuse” in BuzzFeed News (2019 Nov 1)
“How a pleasant word of an old lover that said When there is lovem there is no comfort.”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The existence of lover in the pavilion of the Beloved is a sin beyond comparison to any other.”
Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri (1263–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mom would blame me for things that happened on the news. That is true. I woke up one morning when I was a kid, and my mom was standing over my bed, and she said: "I just heard that Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed have been killed in Paris", like I had something to do with it. [...] Luckily, I had a good alibi, since I was in Wisconsin and twelve.”
John Mulaney (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They tell me Chubbs the only one that get your hand-me-downs And Party at the party playin' with his nose now And Baka got a weird case, why is he around? Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles”
Kendrick Lamar (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was a strictly a one-nighter to delight us we both knew this must stay quiet It was vital we couldn't forget though We never let go we just held on tighter See I'm a lover not a fighter so I didn't fight the fact that I more than liked you”
Example (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maureen O'Hara is one of the actresses I most dislike. Everybody thought I was her lover. Actually, I hated her and she hated me, but she was right for the parts.”
John Ford (1894–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My husband brings me from home to a foreign land and puts me in a brothel to work, and what money I make, he uses to pay the rent on his lover’s apartment, to renovate a house for her in village back home. I came to Gerhardt expecting the worst, but this was even worse than I had conceived of.”
Amma Darko (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Become lover. Think both the worlds beauty of the Beloved and think own self the beauty of the Beloved.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are enraptured lover and insane, we searched the Beloved everywhere. When I smell the fragrance of His divinity, I get intoxicated in His lane.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gnosis truly, is a light which God casts into the heart. True knowledge of God is gained when the lover comes in contact with the Beloved through secret communion with Him.”
Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think I am fortunate that I approach watchmaking as a watch lover, not a watchmaker. I don’t worry about whether it can be done, I just imagine what my clients and I would be excited to own. Then, I approach the watchmakers and they tell me it is impossible. Then I tell them to try and try and keep trying, and we finally figure out how to do it.”
Jacob Arabo (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no bore like a despairing lover.”
John Collier (1901–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep They just lie there, and they die there Are you warm? Are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?”
Ray Evans (1915–2007) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mona Lisa" (1950)
“No, why air every ugly, negative, loopy, idiotic thought that floats through the head? That's why when you're standing by the harbor and your lover says, in a tender embrace, "What are you thinking about?" you don't respond, "That I hate people and I wish they'd fall down and never get up." I'm telling you. You just can't say it. I don't know much about women, but I do know that.”
Steve Toltz (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two Persons talk, saying "Would that I see Yunus One [of them] says, "I saw, he is [only] an eminent lover.”
Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lover's heart and eye will have gone toward the beloved. Let me render my heart a slave, it may happen that I join the beloved.”
Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are a lot of incredible artists doing amazing work. Unfortunately, there aren’t many spaces for them to showcase the incredible work they do.I wanted to create something that would illuminate the works of these individuals and their creative process. So as a lover of all things art and culture, I thought it was time to have a go at a video interview series and thus Culture Diaries was born.”
Wana Udobang (born 1969) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wana talk about creation of culture diaries in 2017.
“I am a spiritual being and music lover.”
Sha Sha (born 1994) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spiritual being Sha Sha shines in showbiz, (December 9, 2021)
“You know what murder investigators call the ex-lover who says the dead woman slept around?” “I think I can guess.” “The most likely suspect.”
Adam-Troy Castro (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether you become a daughter, sister, lover, partner, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother, or anything else with complete honesty, the satisfaction you'll find in becoming yourself cannot be found in becoming any of these relative beings”
Sanu Sharma wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A slight breeze entered the window and stirred the single rose in the vase on the table, causing the edges of the petals to quiver like the lips of a lover. (p 117)”
Kathleen Alcalá (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Am I a feminist? Yes , you can say that but I am also a great lover of human beings, freedom, justice, economic well being and human rights.”
May7ven (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is an ambivalent lover. One moment, you are everything and life wants to consume you entirely. The next moment, you are an insignificant speck of nothing. Meaningless.”
Francesca Ekwuyasi (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seriousness with which any adultery is regarded is in exact proportion to the physical or social ‘distance’ between the two tribes – those, that is, of the cuckolded husband and the intrusive lover respectively.”
Mongo Beti (1932–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long ago I did discover It was fine to be a lover, But the heartache and the worry spoil the game: Now I think, like an old vandal, That the game's not worth the candle— And I know some other vandals think the same.”
Victor Daley (1858–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Over the Wine", st. 6, in Wine and Roses (1911)
“Alas! that Scottish maid should sing The combat where her lover fell! That Scottish Bard should wake the string, The triumph of our foes to tell!”
John Leyden (1775–1811) said by 1811 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode on Visiting Flodden", quoted as an epigram in the front matter of Walter Scott's Marmion, ed. Thomas Bayne (Oxford, 1889)
“: You were disparaging my lover. : On the contrary, I was reminiscing about my wife. : It comes to the same thing. : Things mostly do, you know.”
Anthony Shaffer (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang.”
Arnold Haultain (1857–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When did a lover heed a mother's woe?”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most”
Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The time spent with a lover is an ending in itself, not a prelude to a more desirable circumstance”
Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His mother was indeed Chaouia but he does not have the same aura because his life was rather deviant with regard to local values (woman-lover and probably not very sober, unlike his father).”
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From what people see from the professional side, I’m a lover of sports.”
Susan Nsibirwa wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Jesus lover and that really underpins my values as a person.”
Susan Nsibirwa wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Someone who wants to grow with me, that doesn’t just live but wants to learn and progress in every area of his life. A life lover. Someone honest and most importantly someone with a big heart and a pure soul.”
Xenia Tchoumitcheva (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Cause from where I'm standin’, You got a long climb ahead. I'll be there to wipe the vomit When you cannot lift your head. 'Cause a lover doesn't leave When times like these get dark. I'll be there to watch the sunrise When we reclaim your heart.”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't come back, lover, I'm proud you're under the skyline. We always knew you were the better half of our good times. Those backyard lights don't shine as bright without your face, Out at Sarah's place.”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source