romantic experiences Quotes

This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.

If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

My memories are beautiful because my wife Joan is English and shortly after we were married, we stayed in London and I never forgot it. We loved it so much that we've been back very often and it's always a thrill. To me, there's New York City where I was born and raised and then there's London!

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

My wife and I were talking about '90210,' and we were kind of joking around about how many girls I've kissed on the show, and we got lost at, like, 25. That's a lot! I can't say that I haven't enjoyed most of them.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intuition, an inner 'yes.' I don't know if it's destined or not, but certainly I couldn't imagine being the person I am today without the romantic experiences I've had.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.