Relationship Quotes

"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself"

Ang Lee, Director

"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them"

Anthony Storr, Author

"The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price"

Dan Miller, Politician

"There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most"

Jerry Goldsmith, Composer

"I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder"

Cicely Tyson, Actress

"Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?"

Sue Johanson, Writer

"Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody"

Trent Reznor, Musician

"When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical"

Richard Owen, Scientist

"I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships"

Jean O'Leary, Activist

"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship"

Lew Wasserman, Producer

"I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them"

Mike McCready, Musician

"But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please"

Jim Lampley, Celebrity

"If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?"

Robert Downey, Jr., Actor

"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors"

Robert Benton, Director

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