Top 1200 Romantic Gestures Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.

'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

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

When we are in our dorms, we watch romance movies and dramas. When a romantic scene comes on, we hold on to each other and scream.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of romance in them.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

I find the idea of walking down the aisle and then being handed to the groom by the father very romantic.

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

I always wanted to learn French or Italian growing up. I love the romantic sound of those languages.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."

Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

It has been ten years since I stepped into the industry and I have done a lot of song and dance and romantic films.

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

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

I've always liked dark, creepy movies, but for some reason, I started on the film scene with romantic comedies.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.