All Quotes

Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.
‐‐ Andrei Codrescu

Romanians are not the ones who speak our holy language, but they are the ones who bring honor and pride to the country, and speak our language with dignity wherever they are!
‐‐ Edward Asiminei

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
‐‐ Andrei Codrescu

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
‐‐ Mike Newell

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
‐‐ Charlotte Lamb

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

Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).
‐‐ George Fetherling

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

Romantic love is an addiction.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
‐‐ Thomas Moore

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.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
‐‐ Alan Furst

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

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.
‐‐ Liu Wen

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

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
‐‐ Alan Moore

Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
‐‐ Arthur Rimbaud

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
‐‐ Elizabeth Peyton

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
‐‐ Anne Roiphe

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.
‐‐ Frank Dane

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
‐‐ Livy

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
‐‐ Richard Meier

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
‐‐ Giambattista Valli

Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
‐‐ Paolo Sorrentino

Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.
‐‐ Paolo Sorrentino

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.
‐‐ Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
‐‐ Daniela Hantuchova

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich