Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Craig Ferguson

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

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.

e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Drew Holcomb

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

Ani Difranco

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Alden Ehrenreich

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Aldous Huxley

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander Pope

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

E. M. Forster

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

Dolly Parton

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

Debbie Macomber

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

Dean Martin

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

D. H. Lawrence

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

David Lyons

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Andrew Dice Clay

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

Alice Munro

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

Anna Quindlen

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Andre Dubus

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Ang Lee

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

Tony Scott

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Thomas Carlyle

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Tilly Bagshawe

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page.

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.

Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Stephen Chbosky

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

Thomas Hardy

All romances end at marriage.