Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elmore Leonard

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Helen Rowland

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

John McLaughlin

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Ayn Rand

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Plutarch

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

Mike Newell

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

Mamie Gummer

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

A lot of the romance of the West is in here.

Gerard Way

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Havelock Ellis

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Greta Gerwig

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

Ernest Hemingway

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Jamaica Kincaid

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Jeff Bridges

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

George Saintsbury

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

George Saintsbury

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

George Sand

Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

Jean Reno

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

Jeffrey Osborne

Just smile for me and let the day begin.

Jill Bennett

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Jennifer Lopez

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Jean M. Auel

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Gary Allan

I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.

George Canning

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

George Orwell

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.