The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis PresleyRead
When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
Interpretation
Love can have a profound impact on our emotions and connections.
This quote captures the essence of love at first sight, expressing how the tenderness of a smile can evoke deep emotional responses. It suggests that true love possesses the power to captivate one's heart and spirit, leading to a feeling of surrender where one is fully open to the experience of love.
In practice
This quote would be perfect in a wedding speech to illustrate the beauty of love at first sight.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free_x000D_ _x000D_ I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind
Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.
Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.
I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.
When you love you should not say, βGod is in my heart,β but rather, βI am in the heart of God.
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