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

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • 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
  • Mom

• 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

• My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Family
  • House
  • Wife

• If I had not gone into Monty Python, I probably would have stuck to my original plan to graduate and become a chartered accountant, perhaps a barrister lawyer, and gotten a nice house in the suburbs, with a nice wife and kids, and gotten a country club membership, and then I would have killed myself.

  

  John Cleese
  • Country
  • Kids
  • House

• My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Country
  • Family
  • Father

• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Work
  • Think
  • Problems

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

  

  Linda Evans
  • Wife