Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
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.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
