Michael Parkinson Quotes

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Michael Parkinson

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• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Silly

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Drama

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Think
  • Married

• Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Know
  • Married
  • Director

• Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Married

• No one knows what women want!

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Women
  • Want
  • Knows

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.

  

  Yves Montand
  • Man
  • Married
  • Affair

• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Knows
  • Easier

• After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Knows

• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Chance
  • Knows
  • Diversity

• Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

  

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
  • Strong
  • Knows
  • Shame

• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Justice
  • Humanity
  • Individual

• The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human
  • Drive
  • Metaphors

• Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

  

  Michael Parkinson
  • Knows
  • Married
  • Forty