The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
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.'
— Francois Lelord
If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
— Florence Henderson
I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
— Felicity Jones
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
— Feist
'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.
— Farhan Akhtar
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
— Evangeline Lilly
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
— Ethan Canin
I love romantic comedies... but they have to be done right, but when they are, they're great.
— Erin Moriarty
I'm a bit of a romantic.
— Eric Bana
I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.
— Engelbert Humperdinck
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
— Emmanuel Macron
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
— Emma Watson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
— Emily Dickinson
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
— Elvis Costello
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
— Ella Maillart
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.
— Frank Black
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
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
— Fiona Apple
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
I may have played romantic roles, but each character has been different, with his own personality.
— Fawad Khan
Shirin Farhad' is a romantic tale of an unmarried couple who feel they can live together forever. Having crossed the marriageable age, what happens to them forms the crux of the story. The movie has several comic sequences with an emotional touch to it.
— Farah Khan
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
— Ewan McGregor
I would love to do a romantic comedy.
— Evan Peters
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.
— Esha Gupta
'Buguri' is a romantic film, and I play Ganesh's love interest. Initially, I had just hoped to do one Kannada film since I'm a Kannadiga. Now, I'm even learning to converse in Kannada.
— Erica Fernandes
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
When people hear romantic songs, they fall in love.
I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
— Emma McLaughlin
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
— Ellen Page
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
— Florence Welch
I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
— Fergie
I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
Almost every story has a romantic angle to it.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
— Everett McGill
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
— Eva Longoria
I'm a very romantic person.
— Esai Morales
My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.
— Eric McCormack
I'm very romantic.
— Enrique Iglesias
I've always loved romantic songs.
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.
— Emily V. Gordon
I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
— Emeli Sande
You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.
— Ellen Hollman
