William Boyd Love Quotes

#1. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

Elizabeth Taylor

#2. The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

Denise Caruso

#3. The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe."
"And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked.
Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

Rick Riordan

#4. I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Personally, I don't like to be kept up at night.

Laurie Holden

#5. True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.

William Boyd

#6. Better once than never, for never too late.

William Shakespeare

#7. I'm just totally fascinated by people.

Nikki Giovanni

#8. As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

Michael Glawogger

#9. There were probably all sorts of things you never thought you'd want to do until you learned they were an option. I think you might surprise yourself.

Laura Rae Amos

#10. As I write this I feel that draining hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these moments that we know we are going to die.

William Boyd

#11. I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Hilary Swank

#12. Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Sandra Bullock

#13. When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

Andy Garcia

#14. Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Michael McKean

#15. He had to reduce his age on his bio data. Otherwise, he had little chance of getting a job. Why would an Indian company employ a forty-nine-year-old when it could get two twenty-four-year-olds for the age of one forty-niner?

Desmond Macedo

#16. We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

William Boyd

#17. I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school and she responds with detailed plans for her future life as an archaeologist or philosopher or - new, this - a veterinary surgeon.

William Boyd

#18. I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.

William Boyd

#19. My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

William Boyd

#20. It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

William Boyd

#21. Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?

William Boyd