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Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.

I've had many, but I'll have to say when alcohol kills the romance ? in fact, when alcohol kills everything, if you know what I mean.

I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as ''Lover's Lane.''

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.

I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.

I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us.

In a sense, the movie is about what happens when an old romance returns unexpectedly and also the anger we all have toward people that let us down or leave us behind. This is about the obstacles that befall an idealistic man. It's about an old-fashioned hero in a modern world that isn't sure it wants him.

I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

In this audition scene, she is forced to face the hard reality that all her talents mean little -- unless she is prepared to do jungle numbers. Although we deal with the racial strife of the period, the show is primarily concerned with Josephine's journey as an artist and a woman. It's very much an entertainment filled with romance and humor, and not a polemic.

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it.

I'll take my chances... I forgot how nice romance is...I haven't been there for the longest time...

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

By midseason, I think viewers will be hungry for the return of 'Stars' and 'Bachelor,' ... Both shows, with their romance and glitter, are the perfect antidote to cold, snowy January.

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do not let newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the prophets and Apostles be despised. Do not let the exciting and sensual swallow up your attention, while the edifying and the sanctifying can find no place in your mind.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

One is never too old for romance.

Certainly, today's cars are technologically superior vehicles, but they don't capture a person's imagination, you don't form an emotional bond like the cars of the past, ... When you're out on Woodward (in the Dream Cruise), you're seeing American iron from the '50s and '60s. There's a romance about the cars. It recalls the glory of Detroit and the glory of the industry.

He's very romantic; the most romantic person I've ever met.

he said. ''They do it for love. We love the romance. It's a cooperative creation.

Gene and I just fell in love with the stories of these characters and the romance of these super-powered outlaw stations,

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

Every book should have a romance.

I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

I'm not real good at romance.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

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.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Romance is everything.

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.

If something was bugging you, you talk about it. But that's the cool thing: we [My Chemical Romance] don't bug each other. We just have deep discussions about art and music like friends. And we disagree about stuff but the disagreements are so healthy and intelligently thought out. We're very respectful of each other's opinions, especially about music.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. Any man who will make his wife's comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest....

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

I definitely think there's a romance going on there,

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

I dont think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about love and relationships and Tom Clancy writes a thriller, but what I do would not be accepted by romance publishers, since the romance genre has numerous requirements and I don't satisfy any of them. I write love stories, a completely different genre.

How's Your Romance? Andrea Marcovicci Sings Cole Porter.

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

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

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

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.

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

Nice dress. Take it off.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

A date, "often a boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case, "an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.