Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.

Gary Paulsen

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

Fred Armisen

Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

Christian Camargo

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Jim Carrey

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Jennifer Weiner

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.

George Bernard Shaw

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Freeman Dyson

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

Erica Jong

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Emma Bonino

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

Before we drained out one another's force With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce And the treachery.

Gwen Stefani

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Jack LaLanne

Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window.

Ivana Trump

I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

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.

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.

Bianca Jagger

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

C. S. Lewis

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

C. S. Lewis

No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.

Cecelia Ahern

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Ashton Kutcher

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

Bertrand Russell

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

Chris Terrio

Merchant-Ivory, who put up the money for the film, had hired me to do a 'behind-the-scenes' on one of their films, Le Divorce , and Glenn (Close) was in that,

Jayne Mansfield

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Jay Mohr

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

Jay Leno

Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

Buzz Aldrin

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

Jane Roberts

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

Christina Aguilera

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.