Relationship Quotes

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships"

James Caan, Actor

"Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley"

Anne Heche, Actress

"For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves"

Anne Heche, Actress

"With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek"

Jones Very, Poet

"In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it"

David Duchovny, Actor

"Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street"

Cornel West, Educator

"I have a very bad relationship with mice"

Casey Affleck, Actor

"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face"

Bill Condon, Director

"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means"

Ron Silver, Actor

"People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship"

Keri Russell, Actress

"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose"

Harry Browne, Writer

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship"

Matt Dillon, Actor

"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there"

Robert Cormier, Author

"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

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