Best 9447 quotes in «romance quotes» category

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

There is only one romance the Soul's.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

There's a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there's a lot of compromise that goes with that.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

There's no good story without romance.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

The Thorn and the Blossom isn't just a love story. It's about two people who decide what they actually want to do artistically, despite discouragement. In some ways, that's just as important as the romance.

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

This was all very early on, there was no romance between them then,[Adolf] Hitler was living with Geli Raubal and made a very big display over her, that she was his great love and so forth.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.