Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. ➡

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ➡

Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing. ➡

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance. ➡

The successors ofmay disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of , that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of theand the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. ➡

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence". ➡

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. ➡

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. ➡

It is sometimes said thatare unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it. ➡

The result of an education by novels and romances can be two-fold. Either the individual sinks deeper and deeper into illusion, or he emerges from it and loses faith in the illusion, but gains a belief in mystification. In the illusion the individual is hidden from himself; in mystification, he is hidden from others, but both cases are results of a romantic training. ➡

On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. When I was writing Neuromancer, it was wonderful to be able to tie a lot of these interests into the computer metaphor. It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside — this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them. ➡

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison.... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent. ➡

How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black except a coffin — a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey! ➡

...I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all colour out of storybooks and fairy tales. Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen a-doze and a-dream? No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilised, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm! ➡

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them. ➡

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'. ➡

Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced. ➡

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction. ➡

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. ➡

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read. ➡

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ➡

I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities. ➡

They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances. ➡

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue. ➡

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. ➡

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ➡

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ➡

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. ➡

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. ➡

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. ➡

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ➡

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. ➡

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement. ➡

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. ➡

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. ➡

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. ➡

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. ➡

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.' ➡

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. ➡

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in. ➡

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. ➡

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good. ➡

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. ➡

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work. ➡

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. ➡

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. ➡

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. ➡

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. ➡

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. ➡

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that. ➡

Chris Hemsworth is like my bromance. Seriously, I think I really inherited one of my best friends now. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm going to stalk him if he doesn't. ➡

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings. ➡

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. ➡

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. ➡

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. ➡

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. ➡

I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There's a reason to action in my films. ➡

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. ➡

Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate. ➡

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ➡

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience. ➡

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. ➡

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. ➡

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. ➡

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. ➡

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. ➡

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. ➡

Every book should have a romance. ➡

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' ➡

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that. ➡

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. ➡

I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually. ➡

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier. ➡

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ➡

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. ➡

No matter where I go, I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance! ➡

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it. ➡

Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.' I laughed a lot, and the romance got to me. ➡

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect. ➡

For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. ➡

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. ➡

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery. ➡

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. ➡

I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance. ➡

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. ➡

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing. ➡

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex. ➡

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world. ➡

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. Its the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, This is me, and Im 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. ➡

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. ➡

To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. Whats more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them? ➡

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. ➡

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. ➡

Lex: Look, Im afraid Im a little jaded in the romance department. The only thing I know about relationships is that someone usually winds up getting hurt. ➡

Milly: Hmm, thats the price of friendship. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: It matters not that we were born apart. Upon this day, we die as one. ➡

Zack: All right, lets see. We got jellybeans, cherry sodas and cheese product in a can. All the ingredients of romance. ➡

Mabel: I dont know. I was in the friend zone, and then he pulled me into the romance zone! It was like quicksand! Chubby quicksand! ➡

Cordelia: I want to know what it says about me, if theres torrid romance in my future, massive wealth, if I have to Ill settle for enviable fame. ➡

Teneiro: Thats an iFly Airlines sponsored movie. Its a suspense-hardboiled-action-romance-horror-comedy movie. ➡

I SAID YOU HAD TO CUT OFF YOUR WORST ENEMYS WOSSNAME AND PRESENT IT TO HER! Aye, romance is a wonderful thing, said Mad Hamish. Whatd you do if you didnt have a worst enemy? said Boy Willie. You try and cut off anyones wossname, said Truckle, and youve soon got a worst enemy. ➡