Famous Quotes & Sayings

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

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.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Smiley

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Anthony Trollope

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Diane Ackerman

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

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.

Diane Kruger

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

Chauncey Depew

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.

Billy Joel

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

William Shakespeare

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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 Friedenberg

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Burt Reynolds

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Keith Lockhart

The Rachmaninoff is just one of the most glorious, over-the-top, beautiful, Romantic statements ever.

Heidi Klum

We like to go out and do, just the two of us, romantic things. Sometimes you have to do something just for the two of you.

Patricia Clarkson

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Aaron Eckhart

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

Bill Cosby

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

C. S. Lewis

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

Antoine Fuqua

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

Alex Flinn

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

Alden Ehrenreich

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.