Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Charles Dickens

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charles Dickens

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Charles Dickens

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Charles Soule

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Charles Stross

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Charles Stross

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Charles Stross

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Chloe Sevigny

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Edmond Rostand

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.

Edmond Rostand

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

Edmond Rostand

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

David Walton

When you're kissing on camera, it becomes an issue visually. It looks like a skinny dinosaur creature is trying to kiss someone. It doesn't look good. It does not look like the classic romance kisses. If an actress is 5'3" and I don't bend down to kiss her, she would probably be kissing my lower sternum.

Arthur Rimbaud

You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...

Denis Leary

It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'

Dee Snider

Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

Deborah Harkness

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

Arundhati Roy

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Eckhart Tolle

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

Anais Nin

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

Rita Mae Brown

... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...

Timothy Olyphant

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.