Famous Quotes
- Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
- Mason Cooley on Romantic
- Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
- Nicholas Sparks on Romantic
- Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
- George William Curtis on Romantic
- Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
- Thomas Moore on Romantic
- Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
- Fran Lebowitz on Romantic
- Romantic love is painful.
- Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
- Maggie Gallagher on Romantic
- Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.
- Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
- James Joyce on Romantic
- Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
- William Dunbar on Romantic
- Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat on Romantic
- So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
- Christian Cooke on Romantic
- So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.
- Ayelet Waldman on Romantic
- Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.
- Frank Black on Romantic
- Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
- Charles Kingsley on Romantic
- Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
- Susannah McCorkle on Romantic
- Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.
- Matthew Lillard on Romantic
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Ginnifer Goodwin on Romantic
- Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.
- Demetri Martin on Romantic
- Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
- Sylvester Stallone on Romantic
- That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
- That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
- Catherine Deneuve on Romantic
- The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
- Leslie Caron on Romantic
- The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
- Sienna Miller on Romantic
- The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
- Alfred Molina on Romantic
- The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Romantic
- The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
- Kate Millett on Romantic
- The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
- Marya Mannes on Romantic
- The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
- Gus Van Sant on Romantic
- The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
- Anita Brookner on Romantic
- The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
- Buchi Emecheta on Romantic
- The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
- Vanessa Paradis on Romantic
- The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
- Douglas Horton on Romantic
- The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
- Don Johnson on Romantic
- The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
- Andrew Sullivan on Romantic
- The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.
- Christian Bale on Romantic
- The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
- Ewan McGregor on Romantic
- The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
- Joe DiMaggio on Romantic
- The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
- Hugh Grant on Romantic
- The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
- Havelock Ellis on Romantic
- The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
- Irwin Shaw on Romantic
- The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
- The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
- Arthur Smith on Romantic
- The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
- James Weldon Johnson on Romantic
- The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
- Harlan Coben on Romantic
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- Virginia Woolf on Romantic
- The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
- David Lyons on Romantic
- The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
- Michael Patrick King on Romantic
- The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
- Bela Lugosi on Romantic
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