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My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

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

Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

One is never too old for romance.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Presence is more than just being there.

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

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.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

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 is the douche of the bourgeoisie.

Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.

Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.

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.