Slightly Romantic Quotes

#1. I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

Jamie Oliver

#2. She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed.

Sarah Mayberry

#3. I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

Orhan Pamuk

#4. <"To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on
whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ... > November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW

Diana Vreeland

#5. No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

T. S. Eliot

#6. My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

Josephine De La Baume

#7. It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Lois Lowry

#8. It probably says something about the state of your love life that your girlfriend promising to try and murder slightly fewer people seems like a really sweet and romantic gesture.

Alexis Hall

#9. Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

Brodi Ashton

#10. Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.

Jules Verne

#11. Richness does not exist in being wealthy, richness exists in having abundance in life.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

John Hickenlooper

#13. For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

Tom Ford

#14. A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

Cat Cora

#15. A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it," said G. K. Chesterton. That

Rod Dreher

#16. Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

Nita Ambani

#17. If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

Helen Reddy

#18. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not.

Bill Condon