Divorce Quotes - Page 15

• A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Drinking, Wife, Guilt

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• Most of us have grown up, you know, I think there are very few people who have grown up in a home that was, like, super normal. You know, we all have dispositions because maybe you didn't have a mom or you didn't have a dad, maybe your mom died early or maybe mom and dad argued or they got a divorce or who knows? You have issues that maybe you've started younger or maybe you have your own issues because you have them.

  Venus Williams

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• There are people on the ratings board and so froth who don't want certain scenes in the film. There are people who come up and say, "What graphic love scenes. I think, How can a love scene be graphic? Have you seen Total Recall? In this R-rated movie you see a man who you've seen being in love with and sleeping with this fabulous woman shoot her right through the head. "Consider this a divorce" is supposed to be the funniest line in the movie.

  Laura Dern

  Sleep, Being In Love, Men

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• I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

  Christina Aguilera

  Negative, Would Be, Might

  "Christina Aguilera Talks Childhood Pain, Divorce, Superbowl Screwup, 'Burlesque' Failure". W Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Sadness, Parent

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• Pain is never permanent.

  Teresa of Avila

  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

  Roseanne Barr

  Insightful, Way, Lasts

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• My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Mother, Parent, Passionate

  Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

  Lewis Black

  Hate, Men, Pay

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• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Men, Shoes

  "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Anxiety Attacks, Bounce

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• Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Emotional Turmoil, Turmoil

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• 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

  Hollies, Impossible

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• Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

  Nas

  Crazy, Love Is, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  Nas

  Long, Easy, Long Time

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

  Dolly Parton

  Writing, People, Joy

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

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• When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.

  Kelly Rowland

  Married

  "'You can’t keep me away from a good sex shop': Kelly Rowland reveals her naughty side". Daily Mirror Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 28, 2011.

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• I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

  Salman Rushdie

  Taught, Married, Teach

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• Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

  Dan Savage

  Dream, Husband, Men

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• I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Bars, Engagement

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• After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

  Jane Seymour

  Panic, Calm, Painting

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• The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

  Gene Simmons

  Pitfalls, Financial, Life Is

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• 'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

  Steven Spielberg

  Writing, Parent, Trying

  "Spielberg: A director's life reflected in film". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.theshowbuzz.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

  Steven Spielberg

  Scams, Committed, Heard

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Real, Gay, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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