Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Boothe Luce

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

Clare Boothe Luce

I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

Dolley Madison

you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.

Dolly Parton

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

Dolly Parton

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Dolly Parton

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Dolly Parton

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

Dolly Parton

My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!

Dolly Parton

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

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.

Dolly Parton

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

Dolly Parton

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Dinah Shore

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Dinah Sheridan

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Delia Ephron

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

Delia Ephron

Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

Della Reese

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

Anna Nicole Smith

Nobody has ever respected me and done things for me and loved me. So when Howard (former husband J. Howard Marshall II) came along, it was a blessing. He is the only person in my life who does not care about what other people say about me. He truly loves me and I love him for it.

Anna Quindlen

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

Donald Trump

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision.

Cindy Sheehan

My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.

Deborah Cox

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

Debi Mazar

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

Debi Mazar

I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.

E. M. Forster

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

E. M. Forster

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

E. M. Forster

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Doug Liman

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

Dorothy Stratten

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

Donna Karan

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

Donna Karan

There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one.

Dylan Lauren

My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

Dylan Lauren

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.