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Letter "T" » The Romantic
«Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Romantic love,
Sex
| Keywords:
distorts, drug, fall in, fall in love, illness, pleasurable, romantic, romantic love, saw, the point, The Romantic
«Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.»
Author: Hugh Hefner
(Publisher)
| About:
Pornography
| Keywords:
bonding, connection, downscale, phenomena, playboy, playboys, promoted, swill, swilling, The Romantic
«Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.»
Author: Lillian Carter
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
Age of Reason, economical, guy, keeps, lights, middle, middle age, reasons, romantic, romantics, The Romantic, turning
«It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.»
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.»
«People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cigarette, deliver, entertainment, it An, method, nicotine, notions, realms, romantic, romantics, television, The Romantic
«As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
All My, come back, gaze, legends, romantic, romantics, The Legend, The Romantic, The Sea
«Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.»
«He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
at all, must have, romantic, romantics, There Is Nothing, The Romantic, truly, weep, weeps
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