#roman

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #know

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#had #haven #i #i love #love

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

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

I'm drawn to bad romances. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#drawn #i #romances

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#man #now #recognized #romantic #small

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architecture #combine #community #design #french

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#form #housing #known #look #modern