Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

Helen Fisher

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Ken Follett

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Toni Morrison

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Richelle Mead

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

Walter Raleigh

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Jonathan Swift

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Maggie Stiefvater

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Chauncey Depew

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Rose McIver

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Virat Kohli

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Rob Bell

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Robin Wright

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.