Romanticised Quotes

#1. Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

Lars Iyer

#3. I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Peter Mullan

#4. The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling

#5. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

J.K. Rowling

#6. I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way of writing the album, to make it like a job - a romanticised version of the 9 to 5. I think that was probably my favourite time. I made sure I walked there every day, which took me about an hour.

Sarah Blasko

#7. Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Ang Lee

#8. Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

John Lasseter

#9. I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#10. So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Gloria Miklowitz

#11. Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Walter Russell

#12. My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

Dave Matthews

#13. What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#15. God's unchangeable commitment assures us His everlasting love and security over us. Great Father.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

Louie Gohmert

#17. Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

Eva Longoria

#19. Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.

Sam Yagan

#20. Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#21. Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

James A. Baldwin

#22. Roman, it's all fine! Okay? You can top, bottom, or do it sideways, it doesn't matter."
"You can do it sideways? Is that like spitting sideways?

Eli Easton