Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hiddleston

Sometimes love really is just that simple.

Irving Babbitt

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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.

Marianne Williamson

The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.

Ned Rorem

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

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.

Elmore Leonard

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Timothy Olyphant

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Helen Fisher

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

Helen Fisher

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

Matthew Lillard

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

John McLaughlin

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Lisa Alther

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Gayle Forman

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

Joan Armatrading

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

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.

Rita Mae Brown

... I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two ...

Roxane Gay

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

Wes Anderson

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Stephenie Meyer

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

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.