Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

Boris Pasternak

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Brigitte Bardot

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Bruce Springsteen

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

Jane Jacobs

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

Jane Campion

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

James Weldon Johnson

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

Evangeline Lilly

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

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.

Diane Kruger

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

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.

Demetri Martin

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Craig Ferguson

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

Craig Ferguson

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Aristotle

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

David Bowie

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Aaron Eckhart

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

Ranbir Kapoor

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

Ann Voskamp

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Andrei Codrescu

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Amy Lowell

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

Ally Carter

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Alison Krauss

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

Halle Berry

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Colin Wilson

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Yeah, but it's not as romantic or as theatrical as that. It's very low-key.

Allison Williams

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

Tony Benn

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.