Romance Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Long, Abstract, Concrete

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Glamour, Combination

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• In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

  Peter Lynch

  Commitment, Divorce, Sound

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

  Marina Warner

  Greek, Erotic, Suffering

  Marina Warner (2015). “L'Atalante”, p.16, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, America, Flavor

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• Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Winning, People

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Girlfriend, Asking, Way

  Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Zoom, Details

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Kissing, Dating, First Kiss

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Mystery, Strive

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.

  Jaejoong

  Two, People, Together

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• By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

  Hugo Gernsback

  Mean, Vision, Facts

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• I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Hard Work, Character

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• When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

  Dorothy Allison

  Sister, Growing Up, Book

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

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• Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Strive, Stifling

  Song: Lush Life

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• Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

  L.P. Hartley

  New York, Views, Scott Fitzgerald

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• Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

  Kate Klise

  Cheerleader, Complicated, Dramatic

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• The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

  Marco Tempest

  War, Deception, Chinese

  "The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Should Have

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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• To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

  George Saintsbury

  Mind, Division, Care

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition

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• Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Girl, Talking, Confusing

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• It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.

  Kató Lomb

  Animal, Names, Two

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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