Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Fuqua

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

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.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

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.

William Shakespeare

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Billy Joel

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Burt Reynolds

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Anthony Trollope

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

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.

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Edgar Friedenberg

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

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.

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.

Abhishek Bachchan

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Agatha Christie

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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

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.