Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Clifford Barney

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Keegan-Michael Key

There Is Nothing More Dangerous On Planet Earth Than A Black Wife

Kevin Pietersen

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Ray Bradbury

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

Ralph Nader

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

Sebastian Junger

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

Scott Simon

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

Mike Tyson

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

Neil Diamond

I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

John Waters

I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.

John Steinbeck

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

N. T. Wright

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

Lech Walesa

I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Philip Sidney

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Peg Bracken

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

Paulo Coelho

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

Marilyn Manson

I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

Michael Caine

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Michel Hazanavicius

I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.

Martha Smith

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

Michael Flatley

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

Michael Flatley

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Miles Davis

Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.

John Stuart Mill

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

James Joyce

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

Kurt Sutter

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

Henry A. Kissinger

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

Malcolm X

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

Eric Bana

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

Emraan Hashmi

I watch a romcom only when my wife drags me