Romance Quotes

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.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

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.

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.

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.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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

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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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.

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.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.