'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

- Anne Lamott

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

- Angelina Jolie

I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.

- Andrea Bocelli

There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.

- Andre Leon Talley

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

- Andre Gide

I loved dancing as a young girl.

- Andie MacDowell

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

- Amy Tan

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

- Alice Walker

I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

- Aaron Sorkin

I've always loved when girls carry their wallets as a clutch instead of a bag.

- Alexander Wang

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

- Alanis Morissette

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

- Alan Rickman

I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

- Alan Alda

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

- Al Franken

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

- Adora Svitak