Yeardley Smith Quotes

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Yeardley Smith

• Romantic
• Dead
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• Romance

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Holidays

• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Myself
  • Story
  • Romantic

• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Now
  • Disney

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• I'm not a romantic.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Romantic

• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Person

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Sex

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dead
  • Now
  • Muslim

• I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Romance

• I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • House
  • End
  • Born

• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Know
  • Like
  • Potential

• It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

• Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Confidence
  • Mood

• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney