Romance Quotes - Page 36

• Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Love, Life, Sex

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

  Gerard Way

  Song, Thinking, Two

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

  Charlaine Harris

  Writing, Kind, Ever After

  "Charlaine Harris on True Blood and Vampires That Sparkle". Interview with Andrew Shaffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• 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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• My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Healing, Perfect

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• Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his all to the music, and there is nothing better than that. Duane played music the same way that he rode his motorcycle and drove his car .. he was a daredevil, just triple Scorpio, God's-on-my-side wide open... that was part of the romance and I loved Duane. I have nothing but admiration for him

  Richard Betts

  Music, Scorpios, Giving

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• People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

  Steven Morrissey

  Reflection, People, Arguing

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• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

  E. M. Forster

  Pairs, Unexpected, Grotesque

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Stories, Matter, Life Is

  Anthony Trollope (1869). “He Knew He was Right”, p.272

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• If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Trying, Stories, Straight Up

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• The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Love, Determination, Book

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• Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Thinking, Gifted Writers, Understanding

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• Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Mean, Your Side, Forever

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• 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.

  Carolyn Porco

  Style, Different, Flavor

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• If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Shoes, Giving

  "How To Be a Woman".

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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

  Jane Smiley

  Fascination, Categories, Not Friends

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.164, Anchor

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• Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Coffee, Mean, Lunch

  Patti Stanger, Lisa Johnson Mandell (2009). “Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Swings, Records

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