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Romantics consider common sense vulgar. -- Mason Cooley
Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves. -- Miguel Syjuco
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. -- Simon Singh
Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics. -- Robert Bly
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme. -- Esther Perel
In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair. -- Jo Brand
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. -- Andrew Motion
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. -- Thom Gunn
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels. -- Sasha Cagen
The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care. -- Boy George
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. -- Nigel Kennedy
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. -- Nigel Kennedy
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. -- Roy Harper
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. -- Neville Marriner
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. -- Ann Voskamp
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. -- Ann Voskamp
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. -- John Banville
The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue. -- Mohnish Pabrai
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. -- Maurice Chevalier
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. -- Jeff Bridges
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. -- Boris Vallejo
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. -- Freddy Fender
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. -- Daniel H. Wilson
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too. -- Bill Veeck
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. -- Ellen Willis
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy. -- Karl Marlantes
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. -- James Buchan
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. -- William Goldman
Scientists are a bunch of romantics. -- Colonel Sanders
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. -- Richard Kadrey
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. -- Nicholas Sparks
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics -- Bill Walton
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. -- Joni Mitchell
There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone. -- Merrit Malloy
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. -- Jon Krakauer
I'm romantic to some degree, if I really like somebody. I'm more romantic if there's someone that I like than I am a romantic just for romantics sake. -- Vince Vaughn
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. -- Frederick C. Beiser
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. -- David Levithan
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case. -- John le Carre
We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? -- Robin Williams

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