I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
~By Paul Nurse ~
The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
~By Max von Sydow ~
I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.
~By Alex Campbell ~
One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
~By Aaron Spelling ~
I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
~By Warren Beatty ~
I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.
~By Judith Viorst ~
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
~By Thomas R. Dewar ~
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
~By Maurice Gibb ~
I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again.
~By Tom Araya ~
My wife thinks I'm completely mad.
~By Malcolm Williamson ~
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
~By William Blake ~
My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
~By Lauren Graham ~
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
~By Bill Mumy ~
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.
~By Erika Slezak ~
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
~By Al Sharpton ~
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
~By Ted Olson ~
With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
~By William J. Clinton ~
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
~By Franz Schubert ~
If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
~By Bobby Knight ~
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
~By Barry Mann ~
I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
~By Larry Hagman ~
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
~By Hesiod ~
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
~By Marc Anthony ~
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
~By Tommy Cooper ~
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
~By Ja Rule ~
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~By Socrates ~
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
~By Hans Kung ~
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
~By George Santayana ~
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
~By Tom Hooper ~
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
~By Shimon Peres ~
I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.
~By David Ginola ~
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
~By Martha Plimpton ~
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
~By Star Jones ~
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
~By Mike Tyson ~
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
~By Steven Tyler ~
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
~By James Garner ~
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
~By Stephen Rea ~
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.
~By Lee Kuan Yew ~
Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.
~By David Cronenberg ~
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
~By David Bailey ~
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.
~By Stephen Collins ~
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
~By Ben Shahn ~
People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
~By Otto Frank ~
Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
~By Clifford Odets ~
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
~By Ace Frehley ~
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
~By Taryn Manning ~
But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
~By Ernie Hudson ~
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
~By Frank Pittman ~
My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
~By James Denton ~
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
~By Alex Campbell ~
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
~By Merle Haggard ~
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
~By John Gay ~
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~By Barack Obama ~
My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.
~By Todd English ~
You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
~By Oliver Platt ~
When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.
~By Juan Manuel Fangio ~
I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
~By Jerry Hall ~
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
~By Martha Griffiths ~
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
~By Billy Sunday ~
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
~By Peter Agre ~
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