Romance Quotes - Page 22

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

I enjoyed Adam McCormick, it was this odd mix of coming-of-age, of horror, of suspense, of almost romance. These kind of disparate elements that for some reason blend really nicely into Jamie Marks is Dead quiet story. And I like that the scope of the film is very intimately focused. It's really fascinating and I didn't quite get the script at first, and I liked that, it made me want to keep thinking about it.

Every romance does not lead to sex.

From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

There is only one romance the Soul's.

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.