Romanticises Quotes & Sayings

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms. — Mike Jackson

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me. — Troy Polamalu

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame. — Rufus Wainwright

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn. — Eileen Kennedy-Moore

For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero — Rick Riordan

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way. — Jonathan Alter

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music. — Enya

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. — Jessica Walter

This is another lesson from the transformative movements of the past: all of them understood that the process of shifting cultural values - though somewhat ephemeral and difficult to quantify - was central to their work. And so they dreamed in public, showed humanity a better version of itself, modeled different values in their own behavior, and in the process liberated the political imagination and rapidly altered the sense of what was possible. — Naomi Klein

Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved ... I'm happy and relieved by this. — Buzz Osborne

I don't see how love could get ugly enough for a person to just shut himself off from it completely — Colleen Hoover

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet. — Chris Martin