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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. -- Robert Duvall
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. -- Juice Newton
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. -- James Montgomery
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. -- Brian P. Cleary
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' -- Robert Duvall
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book. -- Barry Corbin
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. -- George Herbert
I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap. -- Amanda Hearst
Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing. -- Tess Gerritsen
Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that. -- Robert Duvall
I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part. -- Barry Corbin
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. -- Steven Tyler
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. -- Rufus Sewell
It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove. -- DJ Khaled
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. -- John Dryden
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. -- Charles Wesley
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. -- William Wordsworth
I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. -- Nelson Algren
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. -- Eric McCormack
Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable. -- DJ Khaled
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry -- Tamora Pierce
I've been thanking God for you being there. For you risking your life for Dove. I'll never forget it, Tyler. I'll never forget you....""Truth is, Lily, I'll never forget you either. -- Debra Holland
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing? -- Horace Walpole
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject. -- Samuel Johnson
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West. -- Eric McCormack
Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid. -- David Copperfield
And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle. -- D. H. Lawrence
In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is beautiful you are.No, said Marged, between a sigh and a sob.Yes, said Owen.No, said Marged, not so certain.Behold, Owen said, from Solomonthou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes.Dove's eyes are small. Marged said.Yours are so big they are my whole world, said Owen. -- Richard Llewellyn
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. -- Horace
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. -- Juvenal
The more bombers the less room for doves of peace. -- Nikita Khrushchev
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. -- Ovid
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. -- William Shakespeare
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. -- Juvenal
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. -- Shawn Amos
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. -- Chiang Kai-shek
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death. -- Jesse Ventura
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away. -- Tommy Lasorda
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. -- Tommy Lasorda
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. -- Charles Krauthammer
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country. -- Amos Oz
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. -- Tommy Lasorda
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged. -- Patch Adams
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. -- Jon Meacham
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove. -- Max Heindel
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time! -- Matt Barr
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves. -- Alexander Pope
See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions. -- Joseph Addison
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving. -- John Keats
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. -- Mary Baker Eddy
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility. -- Paloma Picasso
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd. -- John Dryden
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?' -- Wes Borland
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. -- Lance Burton
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. -- Andrew Jackson
I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. -- Brooke Burns
To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting. -- Faith Hill
I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30. -- Sonja Sohn
The dove is my emblem. -- Thomas A. Edison
Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above! -- Vic Reeves
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? -- George Herbert
Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove! -- Mark Twain
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. -- Saint Augustine
Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm -- Rutger Hauer
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East. -- Madeleine Albright
He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. -- Paulo Coelho
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. -- Erin Hunter
The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. -- Heinrich Heine
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. -- Jean Genet
A heart with love flies like a dove in the sky of beauty and kindness. -- Debasish Mridha
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered -- Ann Aguirre
My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity. -- Paloma Picasso
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault -- Brandon Mull
Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. -- William Cowper
A dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart. -- Jason Versey
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.. -- Leonard Cohen
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. -- Wilferd Peterson
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. -- Christopher Marlowe
The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather. -- Michael Drayton
I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older. -- Lykke Li
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home. -- Gene Hill
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. -- Ralph Ellison
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting. -- Elena Roger
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. -- Victor Hugo
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of. -- Clarice Lispector
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah. -- Leonard Cohen
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. -- Gerry Rafferty
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. -- Edith Piaf
Andiamo avanti, non sappiamo dove. Non sappiamo niente, tranne che il cielo e la terra stanno per confondersi nel medesimo abisso. -- Henri Barbusse
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove. -- Deacon Jones
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day. -- Martina McBride
This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings. -- Wallace Stevens
A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive. -- Jason Versey
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. -- Saint Augustine
One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark -- Franz Kafka
This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. -- Bailey Bristol
I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right. -- Christian Hosoi
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think in places like Pennsylvania, there`s folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove. -- Chris Matthews
The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free. -- Leonard Cohen
What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat. -- Robert Lowell
I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest. -- Isaac Ambrose
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world. -- Ann Aguirre
Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in. -- Amanda Beard
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space. -- Immanuel Kant
That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love. -- T.F. Hodge

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