Romance Quotes - Page 34

• You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

  Wallis Simpson

  Ideas, No Idea, Hard

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• Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

  Cher

  Sex, Clueless, Boys

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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• The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

  Stephen Rea

  Sex, Good Movie, Matter

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• Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

  Roger Cotes

  Principles, May, Firsts

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• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

  William James

  Life, Death, Light

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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

  Aaron Eckhart

  Yeah, Grants

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

  Antoine Fuqua

  Magic, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Clothes, Littles, Singers

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• Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make.

  Colleen Houck

  Falling In Love, Mistake, Cliffs

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• Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

  Dar Williams

  Therapy

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• 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.

  Duncan Sheik

  Song, Tired, Two

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• I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

  Gloria Swanson

  Married

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• I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

  James Lafferty

  Girl, Way, Realizing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Fiction, Magazines, Mainstream

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

  Jennifer Garner

  Hard Work, Doe, Kind

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• The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

  John Turturro

  Sex, Awkward, Stuff

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• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Kind, Poet, Difficulty

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.99, tredition

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• It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

  Lena Dunham

  Guy, Roles, Young

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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

  Leslie Caron

  Cost, Wholeheartedly

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• 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.

  Lytton Strachey

  War, Taken, Passion

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'". Interview with Matt Donnelly, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 14, 2010.

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Looks, Fiction, Ifs

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

  Nora Roberts

  Heaven, Sake, Hell

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• I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

  Rachel McAdams

  Falling In Love, Fun, Character

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