Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Smiley

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

Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Billy Joel

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

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.

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.

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.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Charlaine Harris

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

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.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Neil Gaiman

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

John Steinbeck

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.

Seth Gabel

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Melissa Marr

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Nora Roberts

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

Nora Roberts

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Nora Roberts

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

Morris Chestnut

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Megan McCafferty

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

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

Rachel Cohn

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.