Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Meyers

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

Muriel Spark

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Isaiah Berlin

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.

Igor Stravinsky

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Gloria Estefan

I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.

Irving Babbitt

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Joni Mitchell

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

James Taylor

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

Elmore Leonard

It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Mason Cooley

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

Mason Cooley

It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.

Mason Cooley

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Martina McBride

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

Louise Erdrich

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

John McLaughlin

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Rachel Weisz

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Sienna Miller

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

John Dos Passos

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

John Denver

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

John Denver

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Frankie Valli

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

Joan Armatrading

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Lou Rawls

Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

LL Cool J

Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

John Green

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

John Green

But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

John Green

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

John Green

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Lisa Alther

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.