Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alex Flinn

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

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Chbosky

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

Thomas Bulfinch

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Rick Riordan

Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

Ronald D. Moore

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Shailene Woodley

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.

Seth Gabel

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Nora Roberts

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Marianne Williamson

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Mason Cooley

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

Oscar Wilde

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Oscar Wilde

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Aaron Eckhart

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

George Strait

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Irving Berlin

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

Olivia Newton-John

He's very romantic; the most romantic person I've ever met.

Jen Kirkman

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

George Saintsbury

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

George Saintsbury

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Jean Reno

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

Gena Showalter

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Gena Showalter

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.