The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.
Lionel Richie
Related It was never lust - it was falling in love with you.... GAYLE KORCZYK Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no contr... JAVAN Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Falling in love with someone is intentional, even if it was their looks that tripped you. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the grou... CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this... HARUKI MURAKAMI I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON The feeling of falling in love is great but the question is will it last with that one person or wil... MORAKENG SEKGOKA Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY I will never stop loving you because I have not fallen in love with you but ' am everyday forever fa... HLONIM Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she wou... NICHOLAS SPARKS if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much... VERONICA LAPPAY Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't h... BRIAN MCKNIGHT But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be... GAYLE FORMAN I don't want anything from you, Edward. If you'd only told me you were still in love with Emma—' J.P. DELANEY You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and ... JACOB EPSTEIN If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it w... JULIAN OF NORWICH Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I wil... LIZ NEWMAN You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f... FREDRICK NIETZCHE No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remem... NICHOLAS SPARKS You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as... OLIVER PLATT Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don'... BRIAN MCKNIGHT Oh no,” she murmured, her smile thawing, falling, carried away with the undeniable, inevitable, im... MARISSA MEYER I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&... KEHLANI You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how lov... RICHELLE MEAD This is the you I like. You definitely dressed sexier and are, you know, blond, and that's different... GAYLE FORMAN Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c... AYN RAND I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ... J. D. SALINGER I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ... BLAKE MICHAEL You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ANON. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her IVAN PANIN Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two gir... SNOOP DOGG Richie is the person I most want to share a foxhole with. He is as loyal as they come. He watched my... JON BON JOVI You professed your love and quietly stole my heart, I know that was not your intent but it happened.... STARGAZER If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND My love for her was close to piety. You may think it strange that I should use this word, with its r... SōSEKI NATSUME You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r... AGATHA CHRISTIE You can't ignore what some bands have done. I know that from my own experience, from the way my life... ZACK DE LA ROCHA He wanted to say " I love you " but kept it to good night because love meant some falling and he was... KANUPRIYA SAXENA Meeting you is Fate...Becoming your friend is a choice...But falling in love with you - is beyond an... FEMALE IMAGINATION And when you lay in bed with your wife, are you mentally there or with the women on TV? O... AMBY C. EZEM I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, be... PAUL THEROUX Country music was her real love, but she thought she could connect better with teens if she put it t... HEATHER DUNCAN It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, an... BLAIR UNDERWOOD After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... MARY BALOGH Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in ... JANE AUSTEN How is it possible that I’m already falling in love with you? COLLEEN HOOVER With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but... WATKIN TUDOR JONES The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always ... PHILLIP CARY Sometimes it’s not the light in a person that you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it’... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the... LAURELL K. HAMILTON He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That... CLAUDIA GRAY I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,... KATIE MCGRATH Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway. SAMMY HAGAR And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. Wh... DAVID LEVITHAN I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one... JIMMY CARR But the you who are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in lo... GAYLE FORMAN You can't ignore what some bands have done. I know that from my own experience, from the way my life... ZACK DE LA ROCHA In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that... CAROLINE KENNEDY To see her was to fall in love with her. To hear her was to hear music. To feel her was to feel silk... CARLOS SALINAS She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will... BILL RICHARDSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Falling in love with the wrong person is easy. Falling in love with the right person is easier. But ... MIA ASHER Just when you thought it was safe to get comfortable and kick ya feet up with the girl you love the ... FLAMESTARTA We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessar... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I wa... ANDY SERKIS If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA People Say falling in Love is the result of not getting enough Love from home; but the truth is, you... ALEN THOMAS The experience and everything was great, with the exception of closing the deal. [The Super Bowl] wa... WILL LEWIS That part is fun, the technical part. It's fun trying to master the technique. But breathing hard, I... DAVE PERRY I know that to you everything has changed for the worse over the last weeks. But for me..." Elias pa... CARRIE RYAN Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I was busy falling in love at first sight. So I had to stare. That's what you do when you're falling... SYLVIA BROWNRIGG Do you think it’s easy for me? No, I don’t remember you. I don’t remember holding you or talki... GWEN HAYES Q: How do you fall in love? You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like... JEANETTE WINTERSON Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in t... ALBERT EINSTEIN And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you. VICTOR HUGO The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway. RUTH ANN NORDIN She could be dogmatic, of course and Lord help you if you disagreed -- that was the tone of many of ... LEONARD MALTIN Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or b... SUZANNE SELFORS It was fun playing with them, but you need a team effort. If you don't play team ball, it is very to... ANTHONY NELSON So every day you help her to realize what happened and you wait
patiently for her to be okay with it... 50 FIRST DATES If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. MARGARET MITCHELL It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. Th... A.S. BYATT I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was b... LANG LEAV True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. EDNA BUCHANAN Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON
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LIONEL BLUE I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ... LIONEL SUGGS Discomfort begets discomfort in others. LIONEL SHRIVER Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m... LIONEL SUGGS Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage... LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic... LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. LIONEL SHRIVER I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. LIONEL BARRYMORE That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. LIONEL SHRIVER consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective... LIONEL TRILLING People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. LIONEL SHRIVER It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief LIONEL TRILLING On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of... LIONEL MESSI I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso... LIONEL SOSA When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders... LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha... LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason... LIONEL SUGGS The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei... LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s... LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was... LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i... LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'... LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt... LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t... LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi... LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I... LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b... LIONEL BLUE If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future. LIONEL SUGGS When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win. LIONEL SUGGS To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities... LIONEL SUGGS If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. H... LIONEL SUGGS