Relationship Quotes

"There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended"

Josh Silver, Musician

"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going"

James Levine, Musician

"I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do"

James Levine, Musician

"For me, writing is a love-hate relationship"

Larry Wall, Author

"I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium"

Zach Braff, Actor

"I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire"

Ellis Peters, Author

"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that"

Matt Cameron, Musician

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