All Quotes

Roja Dove believes that by test and experimentation - by a sort of psychoanalysis via fragrance - you can find the flavors and smells that connect you both to the here and now and to memories of the past.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

Roja Dove - who, at 58, is a stock-straight six feet and handsome with lantern jaw, blue eyes, and impeccably combed silvering hair on the sides of an otherwise tanned bald head - may possess the finest nose in the world.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.
‐‐ Chin Han

Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
‐‐ Gary Gygax

Roles make the actor.
‐‐ Hill Harper

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
‐‐ David Mamet

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things - I found that out the hard way.
‐‐ Todd Bridges

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.
‐‐ Bobby Hatfield

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
‐‐ Neil Marshall

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
‐‐ Debbie Macomber

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
‐‐ E. F. Benson

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
‐‐ Yeardley Smith

Romance is everything.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.
‐‐ Tori Amos

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
‐‐ Billy Strayhorn

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.
‐‐ Kim Alexis

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
‐‐ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
‐‐ George William Curtis

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
‐‐ Beverly Jones

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
‐‐ Simone Elkeles

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?
‐‐ Lori Wilde

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
‐‐ Melissa Pritchard

Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding - and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.
‐‐ Teresa Medeiros

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
‐‐ Jacques Chirac

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
‐‐ Joe Biden