In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called “by myself”; I didn’t know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then – ruins more than that, if you’re not careful.
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.
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.
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what’s right, and generally it’s something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that’s a great combination.
When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don’t want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.
Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.
I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
I’m not a romantic. In life I didn’t have much experience with romance.
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances.
50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!
Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.
Pilots are drawn to flying because it’s a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
Every time you see a black romance, it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.