There is no romance without some lying. That’s what romance is – a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?
It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that’s intimate. I love books where you feel you’re having a romance with the writer.
There are flaws in romance but love is perfect.
Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.
By ‘scientifiction’ I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.
I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
He believes in romance. He isn’t merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.
It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.
Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
More important than having a romance with the object that I’m drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.
Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.