If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Noah Calhoun · Ryan Gosling's small-town sweetheart in The Notebook (2004) · Noah's answer to Allie on the beach in their first summer, after she has flapped her arms, made him say she is a bird and asked him to say he is one too.

The best kind of love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

Noah Calhoun · Ryan Gosling's small-town sweetheart in The Notebook (2004) · Noah's farewell letter to Allie, read in voice-over; the line was written for the film by screenwriter Jeremy Leven and is not in Nicholas Sparks's 1996 novel, though it is usually credited to him.

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You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

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“If you're a bird, I'm a bird.”

“The best kind of love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”