Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Satoru Iwata

There would be no paperbacks, no romance novels, no magazines.

Diane Ackerman

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Craig Ferguson

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

Samantha Harvey

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

Jon Bon Jovi

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

Sam Worthington

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.

Brad Childress

It ends up getting skewed when you play from behind.

Bruce Peterson

It ends up being a heck of a basket.

T. S. Eliot

It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.

Keith Tozer

I like the two-game scenario if you end up winning it. You don't have the three weeks of extra games and the film sessions and all that. You just get right to it. But if you lose, it ends so fast.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If people don't take personal responsibility for their own health insurance, then the rest of us have to pay when that person ends up in the hospital. There's nothing fair about that.