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

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Bob Dylan

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

Boris Pasternak

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Brigitte Bardot

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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.

Donna Tartt

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

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

Alison Krauss

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

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

Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.

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.