#roma

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#bandage #big #broke #girl #gym

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance. ↗

— Reggie M. Kidd

#rationalism #romaticism #dreams

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#am #beautiful #been #being #big

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#another #comedies #comedy #course #doing

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#colorful #drab #his #itself #life

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#eleven #fought #just #roman #she

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#books #comic #comic books #complex #create