Top 100 Lovelace's Quotes
#2. The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.
Jonathan Stroud
#3. The pain did not make me a better person. It did not teach me not to take anything for granted. It did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone.
Amanda Lovelace
#4. i have to
believe
the day
will come
where i don't
flinch
whenever
i hear
his name.
- some names will always be cursed.
Amanda Lovelace
#5. Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but ... "
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#7. he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.
-my personal pen and paper
Amanda Lovelace
#8. I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Ada Lovelace
#9. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#12. In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.
Ada Lovelace
#13. The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.
Ada Lovelace
#14. I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.
Ada Lovelace
#15. It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject.
Ada Lovelace
#17. They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#18. I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
Ada Lovelace
#19. Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!
Kelley Lovelace
#20. Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#22. But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.
Ada Lovelace
#24. You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#25. The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.
Ada Lovelace
#26. revenge was never my intention.
-but it still tastes sweeter than honey
Amanda Lovelace
#27. When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#28. There
was never
enough alcohol
to keep my mother warm
in a house
as cold as
t h i s.
- but you kept trying, didn't you?
Amanda Lovelace
#29. once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. How's that for a happily ever after?
Amanda Lovelace
#30. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#31. It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.
David Lovelace
#32. the doctor
hesitated
before
breaking the news
to her.
"those aren't
stars.
it's cancer."
- forty years a smoker
Amanda Lovelace
#33. i used to think
i was broken
because
i never once
spent my
daydreams
plucking
swollen pomegranates
from
someone else's tree.
- then i learned that society is broken, not me.
Amanda Lovelace
#34. That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#35. your happiness
comes before
anyone else's
happiness
-the real meaning of "self-respect.
Amanda Lovelace
#36. i'm pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. - women are some kind of magic.
Amanda Lovelace
#37. And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then
" he turned swiftly to look into her fade
" when can we get married?
Maud Hart Lovelace
#38. Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.
Richard Lovelace
#39. When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.
Linda Lovelace
#40. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#41. I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#42. I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.
David Lovelace
#43. Acceptance of Christ and appropriation of every element in redemption is conditional on awareness of God's holiness and conviction of the depth of our sin.
Richard F. Lovelace
#44. The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#45. We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#46. if you
don't want to
end up in
someone else's
poem,
then maybe
you should
start
treating
people
better
for
a
change.
- an unapologetic poet.
Amanda Lovelace
#47. Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#48. What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#49. Not the letter again?" Simon's roommate at the Academy, George Lovelace, groaned. He flung himself down on his bed, sweeping an arm melodramatically across his forehead. "Oh, Isabelle, my darling, if I stare at this letter long enough, maybe I'll telepathically woo you back to my weeping bosom.
Cassandra Clare
#50. You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#51. if
love
is a
battlefield,
then i
must have
forgotten
all of
my armor
at home.
-a war i never agreed to fight
Amanda Lovelace
#52. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
Ada Lovelace
#54. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
Ada Lovelace
#55. where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?
"- did it really happen if i can't remember it?
Amanda Lovelace
#56. We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#57. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.
Amanda Lovelace
#58. I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.
Richard Lovelace
#59. After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#60. She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#61. Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.
Richard F. Lovelace
#62. Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard
Maud Hart Lovelace
#63. Sometimes it's the harder relationships, the complicated ones you have to fight and claw for that have staying power. May give you gray hair and bruises,but,you know.
Sharla Lovelace
#65. fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.
Amanda Lovelace
#66. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
Maud Hart Lovelace
#67. Ah, there you are," said Scarsbury. "George Lovelace was beside himself. He wanted to assemble a search party for you." Simon regretted his spiteful thoughts about George's horsemanship. "Let me guess," said Simon. "Everyone else said 'Nah, being left for dead builds character.
Cassandra Clare
#68. i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II
Amanda Lovelace
#69. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
Amanda Lovelace
#70. it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.
Amanda Lovelace
#71. The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#72. he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here. - i thank the universe every day for you.
Amanda Lovelace
#73. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#74. It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#75. Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#76. Good morning, Si! I saw a rat in the bathroom, but he was taking a nice nap and we didn't bother each other.
Cassandra Clare
#77. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#78. I want to see that 'Anita' documentary. I want to see 'Lovelace'; I want to see 'After Midnight,' because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great.
George Tillman Jr.
#79. 'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?
Cory Hardrict
#80. your death certificate makes the claim that you died on november 3rd at 3:03 AM. that is a lie. you died long before that. - 3 isn't my lucky number anymore.
Amanda Lovelace
#81. be wary
of the boys who
only ever tell
half-thruths
because they
will only ever be
half in love
with you
-slay those dragons
Amanda Lovelace
#82. that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. -
Amanda Lovelace
#83. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#84. Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#85. just because they don't hit you doesn't mean it isn't abuse. wouldn't you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse.
Amanda Lovelace
#86. i'm not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i'm much more scared
of the boys
with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,
& mouths
that only know
how to form
half-truths.
Amanda Lovelace
#87. I've got to stop thinking about myself so much
about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#88. Let me see if I have this quite correct", said Tessa after a pause. "Jessamine found youth the invitation in your hand, so you struck her over the head with a mirror and tied her to her bed?"
Sophie nodded.
"Good Lord,
Cassandra Clare
#89. Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible
its multitudinous Charlatans
everything in short but
the Enchantress of Numbers.
Ada Lovelace
#90. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#91. Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?
Maud Hart Lovelace
#93. the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.
- period, end of story.
Amanda Lovelace
#94. I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#95. Somehow, my soul knew your soul before we ever had the chance to meet.
Amanda Lovelace
#96. Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
Ada Lovelace
#97. Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace
#99. Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#100. The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
Ada Lovelace
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