Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arundhati Roy

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

Demetri Martin

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Eckhart Tolle

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

Aristotle

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

David Bowie

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Pierce Brown

I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.

e. e. cummings

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Ani Difranco

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

Amy Lowell

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

Ally Carter

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

E. M. Forster

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E. M. Forster

It isn't possible to love and to part.

E. M. Forster

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Don McLean

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

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.

Dean Martin

Return to me, for my heart wants you only. Hurry home, hurry home, won't you please hurry home to my heart.

Dean Martin

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

Dean Martin

Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Richard Marx

I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

Sylvester Stallone

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Tony Bennett

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

Simone Elkeles

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

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.

Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.