Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lana Stanley

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Ruth Warrick

Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Aravind Adiga

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

Ben Okri

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Bai Ling

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

Bai Ling

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Linda Hall

Primarily it's women who will come in and say, 'These are the things that I am wanting, and I want to register for them so when my husband comes in he knows what I want,'

Lynn Caine

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Jane Green

I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

Jane Wyman

It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

Aristotle

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

David Nicholls

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

Amy Levy

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

Dolly Parton

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Bible Bible

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Boy George

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

Elie Wiesel

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Elbert Hubbard

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5, 000 Gideon Bibles.

Cynthia Lennon

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.

Dustin Hoffman

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

Ann Landers

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.