emo love poems for your boyfriend

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. ~Richard P. Feynman


It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~George Santayana


And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor


Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister


The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel


Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~Horace Mann


Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict. ~A.B. Christie


In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown


Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain


He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning


Oratio directa: Latin, the language of anyone quoted without change in its form, i.e. a direct quote.


It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country. ~Edmund G. Brown


If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows


I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. ~Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts


Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare


Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738


Eloquence is vehement simplicity. ~Richard Cecil