Adorable quotes

Adorable

79 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

"I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again."

Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic

"I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money."

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"People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions."

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Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter
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"I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism."

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Jana Oliver Author
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"The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that."

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Maya Banks Author
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"She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner caveman came barreling out, grunting and pounding his chest and muttering unintelligible words."

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