FastSaying

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.


Brit Marling

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
ALDEN EHRENREICH If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit ...
KATIE ASELTON I'm an idealist without illusions.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as...
ADAM RAYNER I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
FKA TWIGS Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrig...
GEMMA JONES The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romant...
JULIE BURCHILL I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy.
KELLY HU I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego ma...
HUGH GRANT I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown re...
GARY OLDMAN I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've...
IWAN RHEON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciatio...
MAXFIELD PARRISH I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertaria...
NEIL PEART Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist no...
CONOR OBERST I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever ...
KEN ADAM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm a romantic.
TOM CRUISE I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an...
WILL ESTES I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
FRED DURST That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
JOHNNY DEPP The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
BAUVARD I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've bee...
GARY PAULSEN I'm a real romantic.
VANITY I'm a romantic slob!
WILLIE NELSON Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I'm a big old romantic.
COLIN FARRELL I'm a very romantic person.
ESAI MORALES She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad thin...
ALEXANDER KOCH I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more...
BRIAN J. WHITE Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. ...
BRYAN SINGER I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.
TED LIGETY My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there&...
JADE JAGGER I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.
RYAN REYNOLDS I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.
LEELEE SOBIESKI Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, fl...
JESMYN WARD I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
JENNIFER LOPEZ I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.
RUSSELL TOVEY I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there'...
MARY ELLEN MARK I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sl...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and lov...
MICHAEL FRANTI I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes....
AUTRE NE VEUT I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British p...
AASIF MANDVI I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
EMMA WATSON As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
MARY KAY ANDREWS I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against ho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, ...
STERLING KNIGHT I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a l...
JOHNNY WEIR You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what...
GARY PAULSEN

More Brit Marling

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we...
BRIT MARLING I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday p...
BRIT MARLING A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn'...
BRIT MARLING I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and...
BRIT MARLING I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it ...
BRIT MARLING Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a b...
BRIT MARLING Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
BRIT MARLING I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scen...
BRIT MARLING The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it...
BRIT MARLING Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
BRIT MARLING Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard ...
BRIT MARLING One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
BRIT MARLING Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and...
BRIT MARLING One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the worl...
BRIT MARLING You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
BRIT MARLING You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
LAURA MARLING I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my p...
LAURA MARLING My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
LAURA MARLING I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
LAURA MARLING I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come t...
LAURA MARLING I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and...
LAURA MARLING I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
LAURA MARLING I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have...
LAURA MARLING I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as huma...
LAURA MARLING My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it sim...
LAURA MARLING I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and...
LAURA MARLING I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be respo...
LAURA MARLING I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why...
LAURA MARLING I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and ...
LAURA MARLING It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be somethin...
LAURA MARLING I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so con...
LAURA MARLING Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible...
LAURA MARLING I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the ...
LAURA MARLING I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be ...
LAURA MARLING Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
LAURA MARLING I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
LAURA MARLING I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of l...
LAURA MARLING I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by log...
LAURA MARLING Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
LAURA MARLING I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
LAURA MARLING I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ...
LAURA MARLING People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and ju...
LAURA MARLING I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of question...
LAURA MARLING If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but the...
BRIT HUME While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhib...
BRIT MORIN There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played...
BRIT HUME Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
BRIT HUME Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we no...
BRIT HUME Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it sin...
BRIT MORIN You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphic...
BRIT HUME I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with...
BRIT MORIN If my e-mail is any guide, and the things I'm hearing from just people in the street that you talk t...
BRIT HUME He was unapologetic of the handling of the information and insisted it was appropriate.
BRIT HUME And when they are distracted and there are worries about them, that spreads. So there is a sense of ...
BRIT HUME These are not small figures in this administration.
BRIT HUME was considerably tongue-in-cheek, and some of the responses have been notably humorless. Lighten up ...
BRIT HUME Well, we got wiped out in Camille, but we rebuild. We love it here. And we'll rebuild again.
BRIT HUME oblivious, in denial, and dangerous
BRIT HUME any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad.
BRIT HUME What about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on September 11? How clea...
BRIT HUME Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
BRIT HUME It's like free money. If an item is $50 and you have a card for $35, then you get something for only...
BRIT BEEMER Retailers have achieved their goal, discouraging a lot of returns.
BRIT BEEMER The consumer is in a budget mind-set; it's become ingrained.
BRIT BEEMER The best way I can describe America is we're sleep-walking through Christmas.
BRIT BEEMER I think they've got to be aggressive and to make Martha more accessible. America has got to know tha...
BRIT BEEMER The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they fel...
BRIT HUME Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.
BRIT MORIN For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microw...
BRIT MORIN We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status,...
BRIT HUME The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured perfo...
BRIT HUME The driver was unaware of the train.
BRIT MCLIN We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need m...
BRIT HUME There is a lack of female venture capitalists, and so there are fewer female-oriented businesses get...
BRIT MORIN To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
BRIT MORIN You can go in there with the idea that you're going to be an aggressive and effective advocate of th...
BRIT HUME Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose i...
BRIT BENNETT MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. So...
BRIT HUME Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it fe...
BRIT MORIN Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportuni...
BRIT MORIN We did this program with Allentown and Easton. We are so pleased Bethlehem wanted to join. Now it wi...
BRIT WEBER Eventually we will work with 44 communities.
BRIT WEBER People represent different parts. They work out what would happen and what they should do.
BRIT WEBER The whole team showed up. Everybody was focused, they all played 100 percent.
BRIT MUNSTERTEIGER They got out to a 3-0 start. We came back and it was 3-2, then 4-2 and then we fell apart and they w...
BRIT MUNSTERTEIGER We're going to pay for those. It's better those happen right now so we can get them fixed. We'll lea...
BRIT MILLER We had people from all three (district) stations there. The attic was fully involved when we got the...
BRIT MCLIN We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling t...
BRIT HUME You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind o...
BRIT HUME Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I...
BRIT MORIN Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward...
BRIT HUME I moved to San Francisco to work at Apple's Cupertino office in the summer of 2006, then stayed ...
BRIT MORIN