Romantic Quotations | Page 4

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

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

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Wouldn't it be great to just exist in another culture and soak it all in? What if I had done that when I was younger? What if I'd met some Highland guy who looked like Jamie Fraser from 'Outlander' and was totally into me? What if I had stayed? That's loosely how this series of short romantic comedies, 'How to Marry a Highlander,' came into being.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

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

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.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

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.

We have a romantic comedy, a road picture and a period piece that I've developed over the years, ... Now we're just putting them out there for consideration (by investors).

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight are rolling like thunder now as I look in your eyes. I hold on to your body and feel each move you make, your voice is warm and tender, a love that I could not forsake.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

One minute I'm waiting for Kate to arrive to join me in the Jacuzzi for a romantic evening. The next thing I can remember is doing cold turkey in a vomit-filled cell.

My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is 'True Romance' directed by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it's a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.

My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

I don't believe there is one most romantic act that a guy can do; I think it is all about the couple in question, which totally differs. It's about you thinking about the person you are with and doing something tailored and thoughtful for them.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Cecily is youthful, exuberant, very feminine and clever. She's very romantic as well. The color says this character believes every day is a new day.

But it wasn't until the 1970s that manga dealing with romantic relationships forming between females began to pop up,

But certainly the Abstract Expressionists were in a more romantic mode of painting, or give and take, than my paintings are seen to be anyway.

Baxters overdo it. The Baxter is the guy who's going to take a girl to the best restaurant in town, having no clue if it's appropriate for her. All that matters is, it's the best. Anything recommended as the most romantic place, that's where you'll find the Baxter.

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy. There is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great, powerful myth to the character and romantic element...that draws from a lot of literary sources.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Girls don't think about putting it together as a whole, but it works for them. If you do end up with a modern hairstyle and a more romantic or lacy dress, it's okay. It's the way girls mix and match fashion. They'll probably think it's cooler anyway.

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones. And everyone knows those two relationships have a lot to do with one another.

If you are at all romantic about racing, it is so much fun to drive these cars and to really appreciate what they were like in a great era of Formula One,

If it's approached as just a fun read, it's like romantic comedy with a marriage plot. If it's read more profoundly, there's delicious irony ... and incredible insight into human foibles. ... I hope this is a chance for all kinds of people to discover this real gem.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

There aren't many romantic comedies anymore that star just a female lead without being paired with a male lead,

He was feeding me strawberries, it was really romantic and I felt a million dollars that morning, I felt so special.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.