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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Nick Carter

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Julie Burchill

The section that we have really brought out this year is the romantic element of the story.

Jerome Lucido

Very pretty, very romantic 19th century.

Mario Buatta

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Fran Lebowitz

Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems.

Arthur Aron

It's hard to say if it's the most romantic place in the world. It's certainly a little cleaner than Paris.

Laura Jones

I depict the Unionist community in a fair light. I depict them the way I see them. Maybe they want it more romantic. I don't find anything heroic in attacking 17-year-olds and pensioners.

Gary Mitchell

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

It's utilitarian meets romantic.

John Bartlett

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Christina Ricci

There's a certain appeal in a man who can be a human being. Gary's character is a bit of a romantic. The male audience will like it for the visceral, and women will respond to the safe and honorable, to the relationship with his kids.

Jorge Zamacona

Most of the songs are romantic old songs familiar to us.

Xu Gang

[The theme of the two-hour film is,] What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is it that passionate, romantic, crazy feeling, or the history you build together over many years of being with each other? ... Emotions run very high in this movie. It's like a comic opera.

Patricia Heaton

Kirby wasn't a very romantic man at times. He bent down on one knee and showed me the ring and asked me if I would spend the rest of my life with him.

Jodi Olson

It'll be a romantic atmosphere.

Rachel Marsh

Well, I'm sure it's slightly less romantic for people who were out (on ships). (18th-century English diarist) Samuel Johnson said going to sea is like going to prison.

David Caruthers

Baxters overdo it. The Baxter is the guy who's going to take a girl to the best restaurant in town, having no clue if it's appropriate for her. All that matters is, it's the best. Anything recommended as the most romantic place, that's where you'll find the Baxter.

Michael Showalter

We also want to create a romantic atmosphere in the apartments. Bosses may fear such kind of things. But in my opinion, only when you have a romantic working environment will inspiration come easily, especially when doing creative work.

Yu Qiduo

There is a kind of notion of the noble, wild, primate of nature who cannot possibly win out against civilization. On the other side of the fear is this romantic notion of nature and its power, but it's also a story about how it'll never win against civilization.

Vivian Sobchack

Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive.

Helen Fisher

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes

Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that. So if you hear the album, it's very romantic.

Beyonce Knowles

The debacle with Mystery Man … made the parallels between her romantic failures and the legacy of her sexual abuse seem too obvious to ignore.

Leslie Bennetts

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

Ryan Gosling

I like doing the action and the romantic comedy stuff.

Mark Ruffalo

Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.

Leonardo Dicaprio

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

Orlando Bloom

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.

Mark Rothko

I think for whatever reason, the three films I've done have been broadly categorized as romantic comedies.

Brad Anderson

Once things got going, it worked so well. We created a new genre of romantic adventure.

Bob Mayer

Yeah, but it's not as romantic or as theatrical as that. It's very low-key.

Mike Elliott

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.

John Mclaughlin

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

Don Williams, Jr

The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.

David Ansen

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Melanie Griffith

The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dictum: trust but verify.

Brahma Chellaney

This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch Shangri-La in France. We aim to combine Shangri-La's renowned Asian hospitality, accommodations and dining, with the site's romantic history, privileged location and structural attributes, to create another gem in Paris' crown.

Giovanni Angelini

Cecily is youthful, exuberant, very feminine and clever. She's very romantic as well. The color says this character believes every day is a new day.

David Zyla

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Margaret Chase Smith

A romantic trip to Paris for a week would be a great for anyone. Being in a big city with lots of cultural opportunities and cafes to sit in would be very un-stressful. Either type could enjoy that.

Donald Brown

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

Tom Wolfe

We really want to get the audience invested in this slow-burning relationship and the attraction between the two and not bring romantic entanglements for Pepper in too early.

Aaron Harberts

Many young couples are so busy being romantic that they forget to talk about anything practical like personal finance. Money isn't a romantic subject, but marriage should be seen as entering into a financial as well as a romantic partnership.

Sheryl Garrett

We needed more romantic-minded males to show up this weekend.

Jim Tharp

It's definitely not too late. You can get great travel bargains for Valentine's Day up 'til the last minute in some of the most romantic and popular cities in the world. There are all kinds of cheap fares and specials right now.

Bob Diener

This time it's much more about the sea, the sky -- vacation dressing, but in a very relaxed way. It's supposed to be very, very romantic and intensely sensual.

Vera Wang

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Morgan Freeman

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

American concept cars from this romantic era are always among the most gorgeous vehicles at our events.

Craig Jackson

I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.

Chris Carrabba

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Gabrielle Union

My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world.

Fiona Apple

It's a celebration of the water that is not romantic. It's a celebration of water within the context of the time we live in.

David Arner

That's the highest percentage of women I can ever remember for one of our films. Clearly, we needed more romantic-minded men to show up.

Jim Tharp

It's a very romantic painting done at the same time he was working on several major canvases.

Michael Conforti

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

People look at marriage through a romantic haze, but it's actually a business contract. Couples need to look beyond the big day and the meringue dress and the honeymoon in an exotic location. I think arranged marriages have a lot going for them because expectations aren't so high. There isn't the assumption that things will be automatically wonderful.

Kathleen Cox

I do not and have not had a romantic relationship with Congressman Condit.

Connie Chung

It's not unreasonable to think technology would (create) similar dynamics in a romantic relationship.

Keith Hampton

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

To me that was interesting. A lot of romantic comedies, it's so obvious she shouldn't be with X and she should be with Y. This is more complicated than that.

Piper Perabo

We don't expect tens of thousands of people, but we do hope for that one couple that wants to experience the best that New York has to offer on this romantic day.

Stephen Shapiro

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

Hugh Hefner

Because it's romantic, it's dashing, it's a spectacle. It's not bad musically. It's not great. But it's good enough. There's even an operatic aspect to it, which might fascinate certain semi-sophisticated audiences.

John Simon

When we bumped into Belle, the story is very romantic. She was very involved in society. Belle — the name was right. It was just one of those lightning bolt deals.

Glenn Rummler

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

[Star says the show will actually be two franchises in one, focusing on the character's role as both a matchmaker and a lawyer who handles everything from divorce to adoption cases.] It's all about relationships -- getting into them and getting out of them, ... has a romantic streak even when dealing with people who are getting a divorce.

Darren Star

It always helps to do those kinds of things. But my wife won't tell you that I'm a romantic.

Tom Mueller

We don't have a full-on romantic story.

Stacie Sato

My problem is that this issue of romantic attraction between two men is being presented to my 7-year-old as wonderful and good and the way things should be. We feel like 7 years old is not appropriate to introduce homosexual themes.

Robin Wirthlin

If you are at all romantic about racing, it is so much fun to drive these cars and to really appreciate what they were like in a great era of Formula One.

Bobby Rahal

We won a romantic weekend away to Quebec?a year's supply of gold fish snacks?a year's supply of pizza.

Carolyn Wilman

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Jim Sims

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

Michael Showalter

He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

Jet Li

It's not any romantic type of thing that occurred. Just an acquaintance who told me about it.

Glen Morgan

There's a Baxter in every single romantic comedy.

Michael Showalter

We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.

Andrea Phillips

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

Tony Bennett

It is every artist's fantasy to run things. I know personally, I'd be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.

Brad Holland

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound...

Tom Stoppard

It surprised everybody because the initial motivation was just recreationally oriented, but we all share a fascination with all things romantic and the mediaeval period, that enigmatic period is open to a lot of interpretation.

Katharine Blake

If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. [Its] departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England.

Mark Wallington

There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters.

Claude Clegg

Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

E. M. Forster

We have this romantic myth about having sex, and the minute things don't work like they used to, the tendency is to blame the partner. Couples shut down.

Judy Harris

It's not very romantic to shop for Christmas in July but it will save you money. Shop the after-Christmas sales for next Christmas.

Ray Mcalister

To like these kinds of cars, you have to be a romantic who loves history, ... When you fix them yourself, you're not just getting into the heads of the designer but into the heads of the guys who made the tools for the designer. It's an incredible trip.

Allen Johnson

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Dietrich Fischer dieskau

It's very lush and romantic and amusing in many aspects, even though it deals with a somewhat serious subject.

Peter Stone

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'.

Courtney Cox

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

Yeah, I know! I need a romantic storyline.

Jamie Denton

I think it was very good. I would like to say it was romantic, absolutely, very difficult in 2001 to have something like that.

Luciano Pavarotti

There's no romantic Seattle or Manchester-like offensive of musical solidarity feeling in Bristol.

Beth Gibbons

It was very romantic. Josh had planned it all - he'd even bought the ring, ... I am very excited, but I think the wedding will have to be impromptu because it is almost impossible to get all our families together in one place.

Emilie De Ravin