Romantic Quotes - page 19

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love. (Rainbow Rowell)
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children. View quote
Renzo Piano
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance. View quote
Robin McKinley
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. View quote
Sebastian Faulks
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest. View quote
Philip Yancey
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. View quote
Philippa Gregory
Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.' (François Lelord)
Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. View quote
Harville Hendrix
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work. View quote
Harlan Coben
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. View quote
Helen Fisher
Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth. View quote
Helen Fisher
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. View quote
Helen Fisher
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind. View quote
Helen Fisher
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly. View quote
Helen Fisher
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster. View quote
Helen Fisher
Romantic love is an addiction. View quote
Helen Fisher
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. (Charles Baxter)
It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true. View quote
Sheryl Sandberg
I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me. View quote
Billy Idol
I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side. View quote
Britt Robertson