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.

Saul Bellow

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Saul Bellow

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

Saul Bellow

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Toni Morrison

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Jenny Holzer

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Leonardo da Vinci

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives...

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Aristotle

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Curtis Hanson

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

Rumi

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

Rumi

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Philip Sidney

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Daphne Oz

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.