Maeve Binchy quote: "My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people."

It felt good. I'm getting stronger each meet. It was nice (to win), but I wish Wes was better. He pu...
SEAN MATHESON

I like being outside, but I mostly enjoy the people. I get the chance to meet a lot of nice people a...
LEROY JONES

I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me t...
BRAD FAXON

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN

Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say &#...
ALFIE ALLEN

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt...
JACK FALAHEE

I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so… it wasn’t.
SAMANTHA YOUNG

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, t...
JERRY HALL

If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of h...
HOWIE MANDEL

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim...
JOHNNY RAMONE

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private schoo...
STACEY DASH

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was t...
LARRY HAGMAN

My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that...
LAWRENCE HALPRIN

On 'Black-ish,' I like my makeup to be really natural - so much that I can do it myself. My ...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

I wanted him to meet Ainsley. She was super important to me. I made my decision. “I...I would like...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a bab...
SAMMY HAGAR

I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I me...
JOHN LENNON

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't...
SHIA LABEOUF

My wife was attacked and bitten on the beach four years ago. Even if a dog comes up playfully, she?s...
JAMES CAHILL

I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do ge...
BERNARD SUMNER

From this day forward, I vowed
to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not
God, ...
V.C. ANDREWS

I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t...
SUE WHITAKER

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
TYLER PERRY

My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do ...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

I consider this a building block for the Commonwealth Games. It's nice to beat Neethling but I would...
BRENT HAYDEN

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES

While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w...
LAILA ALI

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...
MALCOLM X

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
SARAH DESSEN

I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB

I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. Sh...
KENNETH LONERGAN

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me a...
JENNIFER ANISTON

I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd j...
TITUSS BURGESS

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade...
JUDITH VIORST

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a perso...
TRACY CHAPMAN

When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfrien...
LUIS SUAREZ

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ...
NINA LACOUR

Certain parts of me became a little bit forgotten, a little bit numb, a little bit dead, and it was ...
DEXTER PALMER

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI

My dream was that I hoped one day I would be able to give back what people gave to me. Well now I ca...
LOUIS BAR

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry p...
LANA WOOD

I was extremely upset about my daughter having testicles _ any mother or daddy would be. And my husb...
FRANCES TERRY

My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would b...
BRIAN GRAZER

We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but ...
CECELIA AHERN

There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory S...
DIRIYE OSMAN

It was a dream come true. I was standing in line to meet him with my manager and wife, and I told th...
JOSH TURNER

My intentions were that I was going to get back in after I grew up a bit or straighten up. Nobody wo...
FRANK WESTGATE

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell...
BIBLE

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me f...
TOBY STEPHENS

I wasn't running a full schedule that year [1966] and Kenny asked me to sit in on the broadcast one ...
NED JARRETT

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these tho...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make su...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.&#...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because the...
DAVID SUZUKI

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat...
JULIAN FELLOWES

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma ...
LARRY HAGMAN

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS

[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS

I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy sch...
AUSTIN MAHONE

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was insti...
BROOKE SHIELDS

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any ...
ALICIA SILVERSTONE

It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. T...
DUSTIN PENNER

I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My m...
MIREILLE GUILIANO

Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing ev...
VICTORIA PENDLETON

I wasn't notified at all. They say they tried to contact me. I was right down there at work. Thought...
ERIC WOODS

I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I w...
MICHAEL HAYSSUS

Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM

I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of t...
SARAH J. MAAS

Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Ange...
TUPPENCE MIDDLETON

I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about h...
BRAD FELD

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what sa...
RANDY HOUSER

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

I never wanted to marry anyone before,” he said. “When two people marry, they surrender a small ...
ILONA ANDREWS

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe...
JAMES SALTER

I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry,...
SYLVIA PLATH

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
SYLVIA PLATH

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
PATRICIA HEATON

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea ...
DIANE MEIER

I was working with a very difficult Doctor. The Doctor gave me some orders for the Patient. I then a...
MARIE SCHMIDT

I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my...
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