John Burnside Quotes

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn't write my name on it, but I'm sure he figured out it was me.

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them - say it was a girl. I could write this song about how I feel about this girl, I could play it to them. I just loved it, because all of the words would speak to them. I could see them slowly falling in love with me.

If you've loved a girl your entire life and you've been afraid to tell her, don't wait because you never know what might happen.

As a teenager, there was a young girl in my neighborhood that I ended up falling for.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

A first love always occupies a special place.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn't tell him that when we worked together on 'Another Me.'

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.