Romance Quotes - Page 40

• This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

  CJ Roberts

  Handsome, Damsel In Distress, Distress

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• The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Crush, Memories

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• The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

  David Lyons

  Actors, Certain, Involved

  "David Lyons Talks SAFE HAVEN, Getting Involved with the Film, Working with Director Lasse Hallström and Nicholas Sparks, and NBC’s REVOLUTION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Journey

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• Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly belonging. [...] The insider-outsider dichotomy gives life a degree of tension. Not of a needling, negative variety but rather a keep-on-your-toes sort of tension that can plunge or peak with sudden rushes of love or anger. Learning to recognise and interpret cultural behaviour is a vital step forward for expats anywhere, but it doesn't mean that you grow to appreciate all the differences.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Mean, Differences, Appreciate

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• French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Lying, Balance, Elegance

  Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

  Renee Zellweger

  Girl, Dream, Children

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• There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.5

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• The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

  George Saintsbury

  Stories, West, Odyssey

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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• I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Literature, Categories

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• Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

  Gil Kane

  Years, Fifteen, Fields

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• 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.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Emergencies, Toys, Modern

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Song, Film, Audience

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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai

  Fantasy, Telling The Truth, Aim

  Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

  Leslie Charteris

  Believe, Men, Lasts

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• We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Love, Eight, Blood

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• Every encounter with a woman must be viewed as a negotiation, ... the difference being instead of coaxing them off rooftops, you're coaxing them into romance. And remember, the negotiator is always in control.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Differences, Encounters, Rooftops

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• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  Edmund Muskie

  Cancer, Ocean, Reality

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• Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Inspirational, Love Is, People

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• I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

  Ashley Purdy

  Sweet, Fighting, Men

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• I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

  Lana Del Rey

  Blessed, Luxury, Lasts

  "Lana Del Rey Interview - JustJared.com Exclusive!". JustJared Interview, www.justjared.com. November 13, 2012.

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• And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Deep Emotions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

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• Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

  Leonard Michaels

  Sex, Mean, Littles

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• I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

  Julie Garwood

  Historical

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• Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist millions will be able to identify with – and the music of Lindquist’s language is a perfect match for the subject. I think he’s the writer to watch in the new millennium.

  Tama Janowitz

  Thinking, Perfect, Mind

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