Quotes About Modern Romance

#1. The three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Linda Sunshine

#2. Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

#3. This, however, is OKCupid, the vast, weird pink-and-blue toned jungle of the id masquerading as a dating site, where rare birds of modern romance flutter amongst the night-terrors of human loneliness and despair and the suspicious skin irritants of late-night hook-uppery.

Laurie Penny

#4. Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Sarah MacLean

#5. I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.

Andy Kindler

#6. Seemed it that the chariot's way Lay through the midst of an immense concave Radiant with million constellations, tinged With shades of infinite color, And semicircled with a belt Flashing incessant meteors.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. I'm twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I'm the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all.

H.J. Bellus

#8. The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#9. The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

Darren Shan

#10. Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol Shields

#11. Liking something and wanting to take it for a ride are two very different things', Joslyn sais, climbing out of the truck to stand on the ground. Hutch's eyes sparkled as he came around to face her. 'I'm not touching that one with a ten-foot pole,' he told her.

Linda Lael Miller

#12. You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Nick Cave

#13. In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.

Michael Dirda

#14. The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.

Stephanie Clifford

#15. She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

Joe Abercrombie

#17. Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

John Of Kronstadt

#18. Most of my dreams came true.

Ronald Reagan

#19. What was marriage but sex plus property.

Hanif Kureishi

#20. One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they've forgotten how to hunt.

Maggie Young

#22. How old did they tell you I am?" she demanded, hurrying to match his pace.

Joel shook his head. "If my mother ever taught me anything, it was to never question a lady's age.

Deidre Huesmann

#23. Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Richard Le Gallienne

#24. For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

Lorene Scafaria

#25. Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

Kanye West

#26. The fatal false step which, once taken, would thrust her down into the terrible slavery of appetite and hate and economics and government which our race knows so well.

C.S. Lewis

#27. This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

Marilyn Johnson

#28. While we may think we know what we want, we're often wrong".

Aziz Ansari

#29. Ella let out a squeal when I picked her up, "Jonathan!"
I loved carrying her around in my arms. After all, modern man is just an illusion, we're all still cavemen. We just wear better clothes now.

R. Matthews

#30. Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

Emily Arden

#31. An utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email

Mhairi McFarlane

#32. Chadham's idea of an open-minded, modern town had no room for faggots. Being gay made you about as welcome as a turd in the swimming pool.
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Huston Piner

#33. The modern world did have a few advantages.
Nice threads. Juicy steaks. Little black dresses ...

Lola Dodge

#34. Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Richard Le Gallienne

#35. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.

Jennifer Silverwood

#36. The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

Vandana Shiva

#37. You can twist perception
reality wont budge
you can raise objection
I won2t be judge and jury

Neil Peart