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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.

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

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

There is only one romance the Soul's.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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 twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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

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.

Things work out the way they're meant to

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

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

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

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.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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

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.

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

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

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