Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Aasif Mandvi

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Charles Kuralt

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

Jane Campion

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

James Weldon Johnson

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.

Carter Burwell

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

James Wolcott

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

bell hooks

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

Diane Ackerman

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Alice Walker

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Alfred Hitchcock

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

Suzi Quatro

Nothing heals like love and time

Swami Vivekananda

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Tommy Chong

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

V. S. Pritchett

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

Brigitte Bardot

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Jennifer Granholm

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.