Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tricia Helfer

My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.

Raymond Chandler

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

Tracy Morgan

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Tracee Ellis Ross

The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.

Robert Johnson

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Sarah Dessen

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Roseanne Barr

Husbands are never happy. My husband asked me for more space, so I locked him out of the house.

Roseanne Barr

This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Jean Harlow

HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about.

Graeme Base

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.