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

• He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Architecture

• I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Dear Lord! in all our loneliest painsThou hast the largest share,And that which is unbearable,Tis Thine, not ours to bear.

  

  Frederick William Faber

• Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Driving
  • Preparation

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

  

  Linda Evans
  • Wife