Romance Quotes

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

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

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

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

I don't write romance novels.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.