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

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Lutfi Haziri

We want to resolve the status as soon as possible. Independence is coming.

Charles Evers

I'm for economic independence.

Benjamin Franklin

The States acceded to the Union.

Robert M. Pirsig

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Collin C. Peterson

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

Phil Goff

These reservations relate to the reliability and admissibility of evidence, constraints placed on the defense, and the independence of the judiciary from the executive,

Barbara Sher

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.