Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

William Blake

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Wallis Simpson

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Wallis Simpson

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Rob Reiner

Most people are in marriages, and there are very few movies made about what it really is like to be married for a length of time. You always show the romantic part and all that. Or the divorce, and the horrible split, and the guy's having an affair, or she's having an affair, and they're going to get split up, whatever. But very few people just look at what actually happens in a marriage.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

Richard Ford

For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

Tracy Letts

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Valerie Bertinelli

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Robin Williams

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

Sarah Dessen

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

Roseanne Barr

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

Roseanne Barr

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

Rose Macaulay

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Pete Seeger

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Kami Garcia

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Al Pacino

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Michael Scheuer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Remy de Gourmont

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.