George Steiner Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

I believe love is finding the person you're happiest with because he understands and accepts you the way you exactly are.

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.