Relationship Quotes

"Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for"

David Thewlis, Actor

"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground"

Elton John, Musician

"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady"

Keith Miller, Author

"You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience"

Virginia Madsen, Actress

"I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves"

Leon Uris, Writer

"The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation"

Frank Iero, Musician

"My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything"

Lee Atwater, Politician

"I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece"

Jim Dine, Artist

"I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly"

Marla Maples, Actress

"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

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