Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Charles Kuralt

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

James Wolcott

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

bell hooks

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

bell hooks

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Diane Kruger

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

Aaron Eckhart

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Abhishek Bachchan

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Eileen Caddy

You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Alan Cohen

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Michael Phelps

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

Aaron Levie

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.