I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry.
I don't have any romantic notions about villages.
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.
There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes.
First it was football, then basketball. I still think about going back to college and playing basketball. Another romantic thing was that I wanted to join the Army, but it was only because I loved the uniforms.
Everyone loves a mysterious country.
They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe
