Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Rowland

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

John le Carre

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

Joanna Garcia

You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

Felicity Huffman

As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.

John Collins

Pensions are not protected from equitable settlements in a divorce.

Samuel Butler

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Brian Celio

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

David Byrne

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Hugo Chavez

South America has changed. A worker is president of Brazil - there comes Lula; an Indian is president of Bolivia; a woman is president of Chile, and in Venezuela, a revolutionary soldier, which is what I am.

Jose Andres Puerta

One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world.

Brandon Gray

One could take these movies and learn a lot about Hollywood, but you wouldn't learn much about America. Because they are not popular.

Nebojsa Pavkovic

Now is the time to guard and defend Serbia and Yugoslavia, ... America and NATO want us to hand over (a piece) of our state so that they can do as they please.

Paul Blank

Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment and become a better company. No hardworking American should ever have to live without health care or struggle to survive on poverty-level wages while corporate America makes obscene profits.

Mike Ross

Now is not the time to play politics, ... Now is the time to do what's right by the American people by developing a budget that puts working families first and that truly allows us to rebuild our economy and make America safe once again.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Louis Dudek

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Heinrich Heine

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry James

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Henry James

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Helen Vendler

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.