#romantic

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#disappoint #world #romantic

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

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

— Charlie Chaplin

#adventure #always #dreamer #fellow #gentleman

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it. ↗

— John Cusack

#anything #challenging #comedy #i #into

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

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most