#roman

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. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#certainly #fairytale #felt #had #i

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#book #consider #copy #even #gave

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#comedies #commerce #fulfillment #look #looking

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#amongst #cannot #cosmos #earth #i

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

— Stephen Hawking

#disciple #only #passion #reason #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. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful #best #free #illusion #moment

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#been #conquer #found #had #latin

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#adult #being #completely #fell #i

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#filled #find #less #love #lust