Quotes About Not Being Romantic

#1. Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.

Gabrielle Giffords

#2. The curse had not tainted her, had not made her a tortured soul like Tristan, or a hopeless romantic like Gabriel, or a lonely heart like Nate. Heather still had a chance at being bright.

Chelsea Fine

#3. Love is not being married or in a romantic relationship. Love is intimate communion with another's soul.

Cloris Kylie

#4. ... now that I'm stuck here for an undetermined amount of time, it seems beyond foolish not to let me help." She took a bite for emphasis. "You could at least let me make you a sandwich," she added balefully through her mouthful.
"That was me being respectful of your law degree," Ian said.

Suzanne Brockmann

#5. If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it's fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?
Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather there be no debate.

Linda Harvey

#6. 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

#7. We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.

Linda Masemore Pirrung

#8. My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about ... life being brilliant.

Noel Gallagher

#9. If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

Richelle Mead

#10. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

Mara Brock Akil

#12. You being creepy and smelling my hair again," Kiersten said in a groggy voice.

"Not creepy," I argued.

"Very creepy," Gabe said from the chair. "I watched the whole thing and I am sufficiently creeped out."

"It's romantic, damn it!" Lisa all but shouted.

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. I can't take any more of being careful around her. I want her. Not just for now, but for always. - HEW

Michelle Warren

#14. Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Isla Fisher

#15. The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Richard Paul Evans

#16. In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

Henry Grunwald

#17. If you're calling her a floozy, I'm by way of being a bit of a floozy myself." "Oh, Jared," said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. "You are not." "Well, I have floozy ambitions.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#18. If people want to believe in Hollywood movies, let them believe in Hollywood movies. Being romantic is not a disease.

Ioana-Cristina Casapu

#19. I'm seriously beginning to worry about you guys," Willow sighed from the arm chair and looked up from her laptop with discord, "Being asked out in the middle of a hurricane is not romantic. It's totally reckless and irresponsible."
"And totally hot," added Carmen.

Kristen Day

#20. A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools.

P.C. Cast

#21. Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

Sharon Sant

#22. I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

Brian McKnight

#23. There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

Naomi Wolf

#24. I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old-or being young for that matter.

Katharine Hepburn

#25. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#26. Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.

Felix Alba-Juez

#27. To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Kevin Gates

#28. There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures ... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.

Anders Petersen

#29. It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

Miuccia Prada

#30. A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!

M.R. James

#31. It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story
one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

Woody Allen