Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jane Kaczmarek

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

Jane Fonda

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Arthur Golden

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Demi Moore

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

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.

Boy George

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Aziz Ansari

Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Bertrand Russell

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Ben Folds

I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.

Dana Carvey

You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

Dan Barker

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

Elizabeth Taylor

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Djimon Hounsou

Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

Tom Clancy

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

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

Jay Leno

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.

Amy Poehler

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

Ann Landers

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

Ann Landers

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

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.

Jennifer Aniston

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

John Collins

Pensions are not protected from equitable settlements in a divorce.

Maggie Gallagher

People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.

Tina Knowles

Jay doesn't want to manage her. All the rumors about how I'm getting a divorce and I'm going to manage her or Jay is going to manage her ... it's just crazy.

Damien Chazelle

I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

I saw her that September - we'd been divorced earlier that year - and I think she said she had gotten engaged and was moving to Fredericksburg. That's where the trail ends.

I think it's true. There were very few divorces in the town I grew up in. They worked hard. They didn't run up credit. They were good, honest people ? very salt of the earth.

Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.

Anne Lamott

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.