romantic influence Quotes

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

Most of the romance in my films has been inspired by my father.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

I personally do not believe 'Premam' has influenced anyone in any way; it has just portrayed characters and is one man's story where he falls in love with his teacher, and I don't believe people would use this as a reason to imitate it.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and soul music. My college girlfriend introduced me to musicals. She listened to them, so that was the first time I heard 'Dream Girls.'