Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Stevenson

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Tyler

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Anna May Wong

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Amy Grant

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Anne Sexton

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover....

Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

Anne Sexton

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anne Sexton

I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.

Anne Rice

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Anna Howard Shaw

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

Anna Held

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Anna Friel

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Anna Faris

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.

Anita Ekberg

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

Anita Hill

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

Andrew Tobias

Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

Andrew Sullivan

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

Andrew Lincoln

I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.

Andre Rieu

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Andre Weil

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Andre Maurois

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Andrew Denton

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

Ambrose Bierce

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

Ambrose Bierce

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.