Famous Quotes

"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."

Joseph Barbera on Romantic

More quotes about Romantic

• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin 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

More quotes by Joseph Barbera

• "I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me."

• "I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

• "That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."

• "Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."

• "I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."