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O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

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

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

One is never too old for romance.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

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

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels. They enjoyed visiting drag shows while clamping down on homosexuality. They celebrated romance while treating women like dirt. Many of these contradictions existed elsewhere, but I do think Paris ruled the hypocrisy championships.

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

Presence is more than just being there.

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

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.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you’re dating Robert Pattinson, you’re screwed.

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No, this is going to be a big issue. And I have to say the Barack Obama - the Donald Trump position is, A, mystifying, but, B, doomed. He has a nice little Vladimir Putin romance going on right now. I think we're going to get out the hankies, because this is going to turn into an ugly relationship within a year or two.