Linda Evans Quotes

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

Linda Evans

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• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Never

• My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Wife
  • Always
  • Thought

• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Government
  • Wife
  • Graduation

• There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Care

• The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Want
  • Man
  • Wife

• My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Amazing

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mother
  • Man
  • Wife

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Friends
  • Wife
  • Living

• I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Wife
  • Admit
  • Outspoken

• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Wife

• When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Time
  • Children

• It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Time
  • Power
  • Fear

• Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Why
  • Together
  • Nice

• They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

  

  Linda Evans
  • Wife