Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers) Quotes

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Stubborn

• I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

  

  James Gleick
  • Believe

• The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Freedom
  • Light
  • Justice

• Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Desire
  • Bold

• I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Powerful
  • Sun

• The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.

  

  Alan Cooper
  • Long
  • Design

• I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.

  

  James Roday
  • Fighting

• For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Long
  • Family
  • Friendships

• Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

  

  Brenda Ueland
  • Life

• I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • True
  • Career
  • Support

• No, I don't regret doing anything, and, you know, at the time, 'Monster-in-Law' was... I was so excited to get that part. I got to be in a big movie for a few months. I got work, and everybody on it was really nice, and it was a fun experience.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Women
  • Hate

• When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

  

  David Hockney
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.

  

  Jared Harris
  • Character

• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Experiment

• I am not married anymore. I hate marriage ... but it's okay now.

  

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • Hate
  • Marriage
  • Female

• Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Marriage
  • Meals
  • Trash