Claire Tomalin Quotes

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I don't want to hang out with some guy I just like.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

I was adored once too.

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

I didn't really like anyone in my high school - not like that, anyway. I had a lot of guy friends but no one that I had feelings for.

I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.

I had a huge crush on Alyssa Milano. But I don't think it was reciprocated.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with me.