Top 1200 Romantic Gestures Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.

Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short.

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I am very romantic. In fact, I just renewed my vows... although it was with another woman.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

I may have played romantic roles, but each character has been different, with his own personality.

Romantic heroes and heroines are a bit different from the sort of people we run into every day.

Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I think that romantic comedies have a special place in most people's hearts, especially the younger demographic.

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

When you're a six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound dude, you're not the romantic lead.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.

Romance doesn't have to be portrayed physically. I love being part of romantic films, but I wouldn't venture into something I'm not comfortable with.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.

People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.

That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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

I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody