Na Romance Quotes

I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

I guess I really enjoy movies that have to do with human conditions and maybe based a little bit more in reality, so I think I would say romance.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back.

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.

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

There's no good story without romance.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.