Nick Cave Quotes

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

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

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Romantic
  • New
  • New York

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Romantic

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Romantic
  • Clothes

• These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • See
  • Romantic

• I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Romantic
  • Valuable
  • Hopeless

• I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Romantic
  • Juliet
  • Diehard

• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • End

• The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Playing
  • Instruments
  • Notions

• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Moral

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Listen
  • Put Out
  • Nevermind

• Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Romantic
  • Vague
  • Notions