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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. | William Butler Yeats |
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. | Reba McEntire |
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. | C. S. Lewis |
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it. | Denzel Washington |
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. | John Boyle O’Reilly |
You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish. | Darrell Royal |
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. | George William Russell |
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. | Saint Patrick |
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. | Joseph Brodsky |
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. | William Butler Yeats |
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. | Jimmy Dean |
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. | Oliver Goldsmith |
I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I’m on and to relish each day as a gift. | James McGreevey |
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. | John Millington Synge |
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. | Thomas Moore |
Luck is believing you’re lucky. | Tennessee Williams |
Above all else, deep in my soul, I’m a tough Irishwoman. | Maureen O’Hara |
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. | Brendan Behan |
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. | Winston Churchill |
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. | Pope John Paul II |
Being Irish, I always had this love of words. | Kenneth Branagh |
If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go – you’ll find family. | Victoria Smurfit |
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. | Brian Dennehy |
That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way? | Lara Flynn Boyle |
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | Socrates |
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. | Anne Enright |
Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. | Shane Leslie |
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. | Dave Barry |
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. | Colin Farrell |
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Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. | Oprah Winfrey |
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming! | Joseph B. Wirthlin |
I’m thankful for every moment. | Al Green |
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. | Jim Davis |
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means. | Joseph B. Wirthlin |
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. | Lawrence Welk |
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken. | Ina Garten |
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. | Erma Bombeck |
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. | William Arthur Ward |
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. | Henry David Thoreau |
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. | William Blake |
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. | Irv Kupcinet |
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. | O. Henry |
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. | Henry Van Dyke |
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. | John Clayton |
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. | Bill Gates |
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. | Kevin James |
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. | Bobby Jindal |
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. | Konrad von Gesner |
If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. | Frank A. Clark |
Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude. | Nigel Hamilton |
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. | W. Clement Stone |
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. | Douglas Conant |
Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. | John Clayton |
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. | Henry Ward Beecher |
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. | Phyllis Diller |
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. | Joseph Auslander |
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. | Victor Hugo |
If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. | Tony Snow |
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. | Franz Grillparzer |
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving. | Amy Grant |
That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on! | Michael Strahan |
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. | Jon Stewart |
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it’s delicious. | Bobby Moynihan |
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. | Storm Jameson |
My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch. | Katharine McPhee |
Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. | Richard Roeper |
I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I’m happy. | Richie Sambora |
If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn’t open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more. | Regina Brett |
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot. | Mark Shriver |
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. | Marilu Henner |
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. | John Clayton |
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. | Todd Barry |
When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn’t be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.’ | Lewis Black |
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside. | Willard Scott |
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. | Kin Hubbard |
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
You can’t have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side. | Patrick Mahomes |
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. | Charles Spurgeon |
It’s funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren’t allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, just because it has to be able to play forever. | Hannah Simone |
Most people think to make green bean casserole around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but honestly, I make this dish more during the summer, when green beans can be found fresh at the market. I think it is the perfect meal when served with crusty bread, a bountiful salad, and a cup or two of wine. | Damaris Phillips |
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. | James Patterson |
I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around. | John Torode |
I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. | Queen Latifah |
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas. | Logan Mankins |
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. | Merle Shain |
We’re getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there’s people that are not with their families. There are people that are in dangerous areas, putting their lives on the line to keep our country free, and I think that’s something we should all celebrate every day. | Guy Fieri |
My mother loved entertaining, and I’ve followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays. | Joan Rivers |
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. | P. J. O’Rourke |
On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn’t have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon. | Debi Mazar |
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn’t Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey. | John Madden |
One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend’s place with ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ | Paul Dini |
Since 1981, I’ve spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, ‘Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,’ or you can say, ‘Heck, we’ve got our own tradition, and it’s pretty good.’ | John Madden |
Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year – birthday, anniversary, holidays – that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal – it’s not a Thanksgiving day, and it’s not a Thanksgiving week. | Harley Pasternak |
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. | Joyce Giraud |
What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook – it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables. | Julia Child |
I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I’m looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm! | Rodney Atkins |
I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that. | Howie Mandel |
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It’s a perfect Thanksgiving, ‘MythBusters’-style. | Jamie Hyneman |
Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays. | Devon Windsor |
One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown. | Hope Jahren |
The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving. | Tinashe |
Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two times a year that usually my whole family gets together. | Brandi Cyrus |
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. | Evan Davis |
My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life. | Billy Crystal |
I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house. | Marc Forgione |
I’m blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We’re all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody. | Danny Pino |
I’m not the best in the kitchen, but if someone gives me something to do, I can do it. I’m a good teammate. Come Thanksgiving time, I kind of just do what my mom tells me to. | Emily Wickersham |
Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we’re thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what! | Debby Ryan |
Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it. | The Ultimate Warrior |
My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, ‘Let’s celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.’ My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I’ve kind of gotten over it. | Joey Chestnut |
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. | Meir Soloveichik |
Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. | John Clayton |
For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics. | Michael J. Knowles |
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground. | Coretta Scott King |
I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving. | Carol Alt |
It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there. | John Hughes |
Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy’s balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving. | Richard Cohen |
We host Thanksgiving in my mother’s apartment in New York. I don’t know if you’ve seen many New York apartment kitchens, but they are not known for spaciousness. | J. Kenji Lopez-Alt |
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn’t show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn’t think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do. | LZ Granderson |
Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it’s true that ‘We are what we eat,’ most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym. | Rachel Nichols |
The men and women in the Armed Forces, that’s what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We’re getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there’s people that are not with their families. | Guy Fieri |
Let’s say you go to a friend’s wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It’d be great the next day to see what went on with your friends’ Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. | Mike McCue |
When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn’t go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings. | Min Jin Lee |
I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city. | Michael Symon |
I’ve seen terrorism close up, but I don’t live in a state of terror at all. I’m comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II. | Douglas Brunt |
I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California. | Gavin Newsom |
Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there’s nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread. | Marcus Samuelsson |
I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving. | Andrew Zimmern |
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner. | Michael Symon |
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there’s always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving. | Gary Vaynerchuk |
After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten. | Molly O’Keefe |
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? … And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that’s on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply? | Peter Tosh |
I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself. | Ina Garten |
From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship. | M. Stanton Evans |
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. | Samantha Isler |
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. | John Clayton |
I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful. | Jacob Tremblay |
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of ‘That Girl’ back in 1967 when we shot the episode, ‘Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully’ during our second season. | Marlo Thomas |
We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride. | Sonya Walger |
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. | Bob Schieffer |
Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn’t mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, ‘Listen to the Ramones.’ | Jeff Ament |
Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert, and we go all out. | Chris Lane |
I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table. | Troy Gentile |
I started acting in second grade – my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom’s encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw ‘The Sound of Music’ at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act. | Brie Larson |
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show! | Ted Allen |
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I’m gonna do it, and I’ll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn’t doing it. But very seldom does that happen. | Amy Sedaris |
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food. | Sandra Lee |
Halloween is fun, but it wasn’t always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. | Tobin Bell |
Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year. | Troy Gentile |
When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, ‘That’s what I want to do someday,’ and it’s been one dream that has come true. | Willard Scott |
It’s so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early – is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan? | David Letterman |
In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day. | Bob Wells |
Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I’m bombarded with ‘Turkey Lurkey Time.’ | Donna McKechnie |
My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. | Ted Allen |
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it’s just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round. | Cindy Margolis |
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. | Kurt Busch |
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. | Jennifer Granholm |
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts. | Hank Azaria |
I think I’m going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I’m very excited! It’s going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey – he’s the chef of the family! | Lily Aldridge |
I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – that’s my favorite of all! | Joe Nichols |
As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle. | Beth Ditto |
Something I didn’t even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home… without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs. | Jesse Tyler Ferguson |
One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds. | Charles Kelley |
I’m a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I’m either cooking, or we’re going to a drive-through somewhere. I’m really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick. | Chandra Wilson |
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I’d love to say it all turned out great. It didn’t. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it. | Nathan Myhrvold |
I’m vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. | Leigh Lezark |
In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us. | Brene Brown |
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines. | Jennifer Lee |
I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can’t tell the difference. | Christian Serratos |
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. | Adam Davidson |
I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me. | Marcus Samuelsson |
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden. | Marcus Samuelsson |
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday – it’s a day that’s American to the core and it’s a day that’s all about what and how we eat. | Marcus Samuelsson |
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn’t have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore! | Monica Johnson |
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: ‘Will I lose my hair?’ It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me. | Amy Robach |
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship – all perks of adulthood. | Rosecrans Baldwin |
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. | Rosecrans Baldwin |
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market. | Debi Mazar |
I’d love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we’ve raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don’t care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side. | Debi Mazar |
It’s a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country. | Robbie Robertson |
I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners. | Chrissy Teigen |
I’m not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. | Daniela Ruah |
At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I’m grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial… like being thankful for my Louboutins. | Christie Brinkley |
North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving. | David H. Murdock |
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird. | Barry Ritholtz |
The more I come to recognize my story’s place in God’s grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing. | Gloria Gaither |
I’m not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. | Ruth Reichl |
There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They’ll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table. | Danny Meyer |
I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody’s family of origin and their new family – ‘Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband’s parents’ house, or at my parents’ house?’ | Jill Soloway |
I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don’t really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it’s a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being. | Mackenzie Davis |
I’ve always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving. | Wylie Dufresne |
It wasn’t the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges. | Wylie Dufresne |
I really don’t do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs. | Wylie Dufresne |
What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from. | Daniel Humm |
Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it’s very unique to the season. | Daniel Humm |
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians. | M. Stanton Evans |
Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That’s why they gel up when you’re making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin. | Michael Greger |
Thanksgiving is America’s favorite holiday because it’s a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the ‘out years.’ | David Ignatius |
I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table… During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn’t have any food for us for Thanksgiving. | Tony Bennett |
I know, especially in my family, people’s feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I’m sure that’s true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed. | Jonathan Krisel |
My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it. | Meghan Markle |
Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains. | Sayed Kashua |
We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you’re doin’ the dishes with your sister, and you’re like, ‘Omigod, can you believe she said that?’ | Vicki Lawrence |
I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway. | Alan Colmes |
It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives. | Monica Hesse |
My dad is a big Outlaw country guy – Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We’d have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever. | Frankie Ballard |
You can’t have Thanksgiving and not just be like, ‘All right, where’s the football.’ It’s been branded very, very well. You can’t have one without the other at this point. | Andy Grammer |
I was a public aid recipient for about nine years as a kid, and this time of year was always tough sledding, so I just committed myself to doing something good for someone at Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas. | Jesse White |
I grew up in Boston, and we’d have every Thanksgiving at my parents’ house there. | Maura Tierney |
Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. ‘Hey, that’s the man’s job,’ she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed. | Jenna Wortham |
I don’t like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don’t like it on Thanksgiving. I don’t need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I’d rather eat than turkey. | Wesley Morris |
A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it – and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a ‘dirty bird.’ She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it. | Wesley Morris |
My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She’d try new methods. | Wesley Morris |
Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn’t have to work. It’s such a nice – and rare – treat! | Ree Drummond |
My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don’t all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they’re all curious and interested and respectful. | Sean Astin |
I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year’s. | Madelaine Petsch |
When we are filming, it often feels like we’re flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are right or if they work. Some scenes feel like a complete Hail Mary. Imagine you’re blindfolded and cook a massive Thanksgiving feast with only new recipes – without getting to taste any of them along the way. | Lela Loren |
I keep saying this – and I keep putting it off because I get busy – but I keep saying one year I’m gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is. | Tony Rock |
Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people. | Rick Nielsen |
Thanksgiving is America’s favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention. | Linda Colley |
Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with people in transit to, or from, their home town. | Linda Colley |
My tradition, as an adult, is to have an open-door policy on Thanksgiving. I always host, and I welcome absolutely anyone into my home. I think it’s really special. If people are going through hard times or not getting along well with their family, they flock to my house. And I’ll have my tree up! | Gena Lee Nolin |
Thanksgiving is a big one for our family. | Kevin Jonas |
It’s an honor to play in a Thanksgiving Day game and bring excitement to the entire country. | Matt LaFleur |
Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I’ve come to Deerfield in Chicago. | Ben Feldman |
I remember back in the days my Mom didn’t have enough for Thanksgiving. | Jay Rock |
So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table. | Laurie David |
Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we’re doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had. | Trish Regan |
Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection. | Trish Regan |
The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result. | Margaret Cuomo |
Every Thanksgiving, we visited our New York cousins and went shopping at Bergdorf’s and Saks for long dresses to wear to the Homestead for New Year’s Eve. | Tinsley Mortimer |
The key to a successful Thanksgiving is planning. Know what needs to get done, when it needs to be done, and how much effort and time it’s going to take you. | J. Kenji Lopez-Alt |
When planning a Thanksgiving menu, it’s always a balancing act between representing all the classics and satisfying all the members of your family. | J. Kenji Lopez-Alt |
Across Central Virginia, the traditions of Thanksgiving bring us closer together with those we love. We gather with family and close friends, we share memories and laughter, and we give thanks for the profound blessing of living in the United States. | Abigail Spanberger |
Spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the men and women who serve our country abroad is a reminder of the sacrifices many make to serve our country. | Conor Lamb |
We have had the exact same meal for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I can ever remember, and it’s so simple. It’s just turkey and mashed potatoes and green beans and stuffing. Just the basics, but it’s so good. | Brandi Cyrus |
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Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel – and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that’s in dating, friendship, or business. | Whitney Wolfe Herd |
I don’t actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with ‘Dawson’s Creek’ growing up. And ‘Freaks and Geeks.’ And ‘8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.’ | Anya Taylor-Joy |
I met Adrienne Bailon a bit over two years ago, we worked together and became friends. Our circles connected and we remained good friends. From a friendship, as two single adults we have very recently begun to explore a dating relationship. | Israel Houghton |
So most girls I date – actually, all of them – say this. Every girl I end up dating, there’s like a couple things. One, they hate me at first. | Logan Paul |
I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It’s like, in real life, I’ve got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who’s twice their age, and they’re equally in love. | Margot Robbie |
I did feel support right from the start from LeBron. He’s always shown me a great deal of respect dating back to our battles when I was in Indiana and competing with the Heat in the conference finals, and coaching him in the All-Star Game. | Frank Vogel |
I was also dating someone from UCLA and also I had another suitor, Jimmy Caan. So it was between my college boyfriend, Jimmy Caan and Hef. And Hef won. Within a few months, we were exclusive. | Barbi Benton |
Are you kidding? I’m a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. | Rebecca Romijn |
I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I’m dating them. | Halsey |
I think dating apps are keeping us apart. | Karamo Brown |
I am a young girl, and I am open to dating, but at the risk of sounding cliched, I really don’t have the time for it. | Bhumi Pednekar |
I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me. | James Veitch |
No way will I put my family and my life on the TV or be involved with something like a dating show or any type of reality show. | Donovan McNabb |
As far as dating is concerned, I’m not a casual dating person. | Divyanka Tripathi |
We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties. | Sam Yagan |
I’m dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for ‘Space Invaders.’ I remember when that was the first game that wasn’t a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on ‘Space Invaders,’ in the form of quarters, of course. | John C. Reilly |
Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it’s nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be. | Margot Robbie |
I’m opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It’s funny – my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I’m really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. | Olivia Wilde |
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It’s just that constant strangeness. I think it’s a very real thing. | Jason Schwartzman |
For a long time, I have been wanting to write a book for singles that would help them in the dating process and in getting ready for marriage. Most of my writing, I’ve written to couples who are already married, because I’ve been doing marriage counseling for 35 years. | Gary Chapman |
Wedding dress shopping is basically like dating. You pick the one based on how you feel. | Brooke Baldwin |
I’m dating my iPhone. | iJustine |
I love being a single mom. But it’s definitely different when you’re dating. | Brooke Burns |
I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people. | Natasha Leggero |
I stay away from online dating. Interacting with the person right in front of you is a much easier way to talk. | Marcus Mariota |
We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid. | Sam Yagan |
Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not. | Danny Rimer |
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 |
My father’s family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife. | Chris Rea |
I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can’t date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it’s just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man. | Patti Stanger |
If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don’t really want to watch a movie. | Chris Gethard |
It’s always been like this since the beginning of time. You interact with one female or somebody that people will think you’ll cute with and everybody either assumes that you’re dating or they want you date. It’s just how it all works. | David Dobrik |
It’s a bit harder being on TV. I would be open to finding dates through Facebook or Instagram though, does that count? I do love flicking through profiles on my friend’s dating apps though! | Laura Whitmore |
Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle. | Jason Lee |
The term ‘alpha female’ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. | Frans de Waal |
I guess there are all these women with a big secret – they’re hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: ‘I’ve been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can’t give him up even though he’s embarrassing.’ | Hannah Simone |
Honestly, even if I was dating someone, I will not talk about it unless I am 100 per cent sure about it, because I am a private person. | Hina Khan |
I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man… dating tall, beautiful women… But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height. | Mickey Rooney |
People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it’s true that turning the person you’re dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken. | Emily V. Gordon |
I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, ‘Leave (Get Out),’ I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating. | JoJo |
I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating. | Taylor Swift |
We all make snap judgments on small amounts of information. We do it all the time with online dating, deciding whether to spend time someone on the basis of a short blurb and three pics. | Alice Levine |
I grew up, I had three uncles and… I loved Uncle Donald because he gave me dating advice, and I was, like, 5. But the other thing that I found fascinating about my Uncle Donald is he dressed up like a woman. And so I grew up around all of these men who dressed like women, so when I hear that, I don’t hear a cause. I hear my family. | Salim Akil |
Both the guys in Nightwish and I have experiences with previous band breakups and all emotions that come with it. It’s almost like dating. | Floor Jansen |
OKCupid’s model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it’s the news or whether it’s sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way. | Sam Yagan |
I met my future husband Andy fighting for trans equality, and we fell in love. A couple of months after we started dating, Andy was diagnosed with cancer, and despite getting a clean bill of health several months later, eventually his cancer came back, and it was terminal. | Sarah McBride |
Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are. | Amanda Seales |
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don’t have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can’t do anything about it. | Joshua Harris |
I’ve said many times how big a wrestling fan I am, but all my bias aside as her husband, I’m a huge Candice LeRae fan. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we started dating. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we got married. | Johnny Gargano |
If I’ve been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don’t think it would be worth it. I’m not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance. | Avan Jogia |
I remembered, like, when ‘Not When My Daughter’ came out, I’m serious, I think dating for Iranian men became a lot harder. Dude’s name, Shahrokh – became Tony. Mehsud became Mike. | Maz Jobrani |
I have used dating apps a couple of times in the past and met people, but it is a difficult thing because you’re meeting someone who you really don’t know and you have no link to. I have friends who have had great relationships after meeting on Tinder or Bumble, so I’d never say never, but it hasn’t worked for me. | Georgina Campbell |
Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want – it’s the billion-dollar question. But it’s simple: put one in charge, and you find out. | Whitney Wolfe Herd |
My family had a lot to do with ‘My Infamous Life.’ They were the inspiration behind me starting to write. I had an interesting family life dating way back, and they did a lot in their lifetime. | Prodigy |
I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I had to. I had been trying to get a business started selling dating and life advice and was struggling. | Mark Manson |
There’s nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don’t need to be in a relationship because that’s what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, ‘I’m OK alone.’ | Whitney Wolfe Herd |
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven’t been updated to address dating partner abuse. | Gabrielle Giffords |
An important part of dating is communicating. We communicate by sharing our thoughts, ideas, and feelings. We enjoy being with someone when we have an easy time communicating or when we have a lot to talk about. | John Bytheway |
People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It’s like speed dating. You’ve got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people. | Christine Elise |
Mahesh lays down most of the rules. Even when I was dating him for four years prior to our marriage, he didn’t want our relationship to be out in the open. | Namrata Shirodkar |
Like many of you, I’ve always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series ‘Dark Shadows,’ which I followed avidly as a kid. | Bill Condon |
I don’t have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well. | Jesse Metcalfe |
I’ve had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating. | Holly Madison |
The fact that Manti Te’o thought for a long time that he was dating, like, a fake girl and then that she died and did the tribute and the girl never existed. I mean inherently that’s funny. | Dave Portnoy |
It’s lonely. That’s why, in many ways, the CIA is the world’s biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it’s much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I’m pretty sure the agency’s divorce rate is rather high. | Valerie Plame |
This is what I hate about dating – when you just don’t know where you stand. I’m pretty honest, I’ll say, ‘Hey I don’t know what’s going on,’ but I don’t like the game of it. Like, do we like each other? Great, well let’s explore that. | Hannah Brown |
Wells Fargo’s internal review only covers unauthorized accounts dating back to 2011. News reports and court documents suggest these problems might have existed long before then. The 2013 ‘Los Angeles Times’ articles led to the L.A. city attorney’s office investigation into Wells Fargo’s sales practices. | Richard Shelby |
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, ‘I love you,’ they ran faster. | Regina Brett |
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about. | Clint Eastwood |
Dating is hard in general, especially in places like L.A. and New York. | Jordan Fisher |
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn’t work out, I’d take that as failing. | Gavin DeGraw |
Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen. | Conan O’Brien |
I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I’m embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it. | Torrie Wilson |
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I’m single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me! | Andie MacDowell |
I can’t wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends. | David Gallagher |
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! | Meg Cabot |
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners. | Melinda Gates |
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. | Judith Krantz |
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he’d be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn’t serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else. | Priscilla Presley |
You’re talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I’ve never really been a dater. | Stockard Channing |
I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone I’m dating had more time for a console than me. | Josie Maran |
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. | Lorna Luft |
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you’re going to take a shower, do it with whomever you’re dating so you don’t waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody’s going to want one. | Moon Unit Zappa |
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu’s mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. | Maurice Gibb |
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others. | Simon Greenleaf |
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to. | Shia LaBeouf |
At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn’t really see fighting. | Kato Kaelin |
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I’ve had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website. | Tim Berners-Lee |
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. | George Andrew Olah |
I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life. | Ben Affleck |
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. | Douglas Coupland |
I wish I was dating one of the ladies in ‘Bollywood Hero.’ They’re gorgeous. Any of them. | Chris Kattan |
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian – I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don’t think I’m that type. | Jeremy Lin |
I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating. | Jerry O’Connell |
Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about. | Tina Fey |
I’m honest about the journey I’ve been on, so I definitely don’t take dating lightly anymore. | Demi Lovato |
I ain’t scared to do another dating show, but I ain’t really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I’ve done enough dating on television. I’m ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues. | Flavor Flav |
I don’t talk about who I’m dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media. | Bridget Fonda |
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, ‘This is just dumb.’ | Louis C. K. |
All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way. | Lena Dunham |
I’m not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax. | Lena Dunham |
I’m a bad dater – I’m just not good at it. It’s so weird dating in this town. It’s like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, ‘Is she dating anyone?’ | Jules Asner |
Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason. | Zac Efron |
I’m finally dating. It’s fun. | Kristin Chenoweth |
I don’t really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don’t call the guy until he calls you. I don’t think it’s like he’s got to do this and that’s the rule. | Ashley Tisdale |
I give dating advice on a regular basis. It’s not that I’m any expert, but it’s always nice to share that with your friends. | Ashley Tisdale |
Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone. | Toni Braxton |
I have no wisdom to share on dating. | Rachel Dratch |
Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It’s really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself. | Brooke Burke |
I’m often dating people, but I don’t say it because you sort of know it won’t last long. | Graham Norton |
I’m very open to dating and finding a guy. | Kristin Cavallari |
I don’t mind dating younger men now. | Jackee Harry |
I’m friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn’t just get into it. I don’t think you can be friends until you’re cool with them dating someone else. That’s when you know. | Rashida Jones |
I think feminism’s a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There’s nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody’s confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. | Zosia Mamet |
I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn’t met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them! | Shay Mitchell |
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don’t think she’s dating for love – I think she’s dating for creativity. So let’s get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them. | Patti Stanger |
I have put gay dating on the map. | Patti Stanger |
The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They’ll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they’re human beings. | Patti Stanger |
I don’t know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships. | Ginnifer Goodwin |
I’ve always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end! | Carrie Ann Inaba |
I do like dating cynics – they tend to be incredibly funny. | Chris Pine |
Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it’s one thing. I don’t have a lot of time to think about dating. | Chris Pine |
I heard on public radio recently, there’s a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It’s in Vermont. I don’t think I’d be very good at Weed Dating. | Roy Blount, Jr. |
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn’t encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what’s best in my life, so if you’re dating someone who doesn’t want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn’t be dating them. | Veronica Roth |
Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have? | Chris Messina |
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere. | Andre Dubus III |
I don’t have dating tips. | Bill Keller |
Dating co-stars is natural. When you’re working with someone, it’s habit. | Rachel Bilson |
I don’t really talk about my personal life. It’s a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you’re dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night. | Tracee Ellis Ross |
Here’s the funny thing about the response I’ve been aware of to my dating famous people: It’s been very negative. I’m either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people. | Dax Shepard |
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy. | Lauren Conrad |
I’m not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there’s something nice about a guy pulling out a girl’s chair and opening the door for her, even if it’s just in the beginning. | Lauren Conrad |
I don’t have the best dating track record. | Lauren Conrad |
Dating is all about the chase. It’s fun! | Lauren Conrad |
I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding. | Anne Robinson |
Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it’s amazing. I am awful, the worst dater. | Paget Brewster |
I don’t want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It’s not a good look. | Jesse Metcalfe |
Women were very, very good at ‘Pong’. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing ‘Pong’ was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact. | Nolan Bushnell |
I’m not saying dating is sinful, and I’m not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I’m saying let’s wait until we can be purposeful, so there’s a reason behind our relationship, and we’re not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time. | Joshua Harris |
I’ve never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book. | Greg Behrendt |
Dating is for tools. | Neil Strauss |
I put my family first, and that’s why for a long time, you didn’t see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work. | Kimora Lee Simmons |
When someone is good, but it doesn’t seem like their world will collapse if they don’t get the part, it’s more appealing. It’s like dating someone: You don’t want someone who’s too into you. | Steve Carell |
I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It’s so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you’re dating? | Adrianne Palicki |
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I’m inspired by Miyazaki’s films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination. | Fred Seibert |
I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people’s is: If it works, great. If you’re serious and legitimate about it and know what you’re looking for, then from what I hear, it’s definitely effective. | Nev Schulman |
It’s difficult dating as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling. | Serinda Swan |
I’m dating a very high-maintenance career. | Aimee Garcia |
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it’s a small version of the whole building; that’s why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts. | Charles Jencks |
Dating is fun. It’s light: There’s courting; there’s the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There’s no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that’s really important. | Denise Vasi |
I want to start dating the man that I’m gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I’m gonna be with. I don’t play any games. I’m too old for that. I’ve been there; I’ve been around the block. | LisaRaye McCoy-Misick |
Dating has taught me what I want and don’t want, who I am, and who I want to be. | Jennifer Love Hewitt |
I don’t have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl – like when I was 12 – there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers. | Anderson Cooper |
I’m single, and I hate dating. | Keshia Knight Pulliam |
I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family. | Hope Solo |
My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace. | Jennie Finch |
I think audiences can relate to the guys I’m playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they’re dating. | Rob Riggle |
Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them. | Nas |
Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the ‘Daily Mirror.’ They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don’t really have any memories of them as a couple. | Natascha McElhone |
I’ve got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out – even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong. | Sheridan Smith |
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life… until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who’d come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit. | Chandra West |
I’m not interested in serial dating; I’d honestly rather be single. | Tamsin Egerton |
You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that. | Taylor Swift |
I’m never going to say anything about who I’m dating unless I’m married or engaged. | Kirsten Dunst |
Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn’t go out with. | Garry Shandling |
I’ve been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don’t seem to do it well. | Harvey Fierstein |
I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating. | Taylor Swift |
I’m definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I’m not into the ‘game’ so much. If I like you, I’ll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me. | Ashley Tisdale |
I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were ‘The Other.’ I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn’t been; it makes no difference. | Stephen Merchant |
I feel like there is always a rumor that I’m dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing. | Lauren London |
First and foremost when you’re doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you’re living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It’s hard to be funny in that realm. | Adam McKay |
I just don’t like when there’s a rumor that says I’m dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, ‘Thank you for the big ups!’ | Marilyn Manson |
Who would want to get back together with Taylor Swift after having dated her? I’m sure dating her is like talking to a white sheet of paper with a little bit of vanilla ice cream on it that doesn’t say anything. | Kurt Braunohler |
Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating! | Ruchi Sanghvi |
I’m very heterosexual, so dating women is something I’m not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be. | Ranbir Kapoor |
When I don’t have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But whether you go for a movie with someone or a meal or a drive, it is assumed that you are dating that person. | Shahid Kapoor |
Someone who’ll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I’m curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I’m tired of dating actresses. | Shahid Kapoor |
I’d been dating my husband for about a year, and I’d already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right? | Judy Greer |
I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it’s nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded. | Megan Fox |
Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who, when I asked him what he did for a living, said he ‘used to be in a band.’ I was like, ‘That is not an occupation.’ | Julie Klausner |
I didn’t write my book, ‘I Don’t Care About Your Band,’ in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with. | Julie Klausner |
People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy. | Henry Cloud |
‘Dating Game’ wasn’t social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can’t go wrong when a show’s premise is hard-wired into human DNA. | Seth Shostak |
Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest – or that at least they didn’t cheat. So as a ‘Dating Game’ bachelor, I didn’t know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time. | Seth Shostak |
When you start dating another country star, the first question is, ‘When are y’all gonna do a duet?’ And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not. | Blake Shelton |
I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing ‘Cry Me A River’ on ‘The X Factor.’ That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful. | Liam Payne |
I know some people who’ve gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn’t have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well. | Nikki Sixx |
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack. | Joseph B. Wirthlin |
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. | Barton Gellman |
I’m doin’ something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it’s not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there’s no huge message or through line. | Hannibal Buress |
My husband’s a little younger than me. When I first started dating him, I just fell mad for him. I made a deal with myself: I was like, ‘I’m not gonna get weird about what the future might be. I’m just going to be in every moment I can and enjoy us to the fullest.’ I told him that, too. | Joelle Carter |
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn’t convinced you of this, there’s research that will. | Martha Beck |
When you’re young and dating someone, just play it safe and don’t try so hard. | Matt Prokop |
I think probably – I think, you know, when you’re first dating somebody, if they’re just not that physical with you, if they don’t want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they’re sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that’s a pretty good sign that they’re not into you. | Greg Behrendt |
Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf’s modern technology, I hadn’t found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I’d met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I’d made on You-and-Me.com. She said, ‘I love it when you talk equipment to me.’ | Dan Jenkins |
I like to think I’ll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, ‘Oh my God, you’re awesome,’ and then we start dating. | Laura Prepon |
The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre. | Hannah Simone |
‘Christian Mingle’ is about a young, modern, single woman. She’s trying to achieve it all – a successful career, amazing friends, and finding Mr. Right. She stumbles into the world of online dating looking for an instant ‘soul mate solution,’ but ultimately ends up taking a personal journey transforming her life. | Corbin Bernsen |
Growing up, I didn’t get the talk of ‘Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.’ So I was the girl who wasn’t dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn’t have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘You’re too pretty and cool to be treated like this.’ | Meghan Trainor |
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you’d never know just by dating. | Scott Westerfeld |
Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period. | Sevyn Streeter |
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. | Chris Pine |
It’s tough to be 68 and dating. I’ve given it up now. | Ian McLagan |
I’m not very good at dating. I’m very decisive. If I like someone, then they’re my boyfriend. It’s pretty straightforward. | Vinessa Shaw |
When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren’t ‘dating’ somebody, you couldn’t just be friends with somebody. | S. E. Hinton |
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn’t have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn’t have any emptiness to fill. | Kiesza |
I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories. | Allison Tolman |
What does ‘dating’ mean? I don’t know. I couldn’t say. | Catherine Hardwicke |
I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can’t imagine dating someone and seeing what they’re doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then. | Jen Lancaster |
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. | Sri Mulyani Indrawati |
There are big parts of my life that I don’t share. I don’t share myself eating dinner with my family. I don’t talk about who I’m dating. That’s private; that’s me. | Ansel Elgort |
If you’re a good Amish girl, you’re courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That’s just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they’re dating or seeing until two weeks before they’re going to be married. It’s how they’ve done it for 300 years. | Beverly Lewis |
The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted. | John Gurdon |
I can’t imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can. | Dylan Penn |
I’ve always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests me. It is the constructing of the team that is my favorite part. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the A’s franchise, even dating back to Philadelphia, knows that every five or 10 years, you have to tear it apart and rebuild it. | Billy Beane |
I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date ‘normal’ people because the Hollywood dating rule is ‘one star per couple’ because it’s quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors. | Zach Galligan |
The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology. | Sam Yagan |
I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it’s – my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time. | Sam Yagan |
My friends and the people I know understand that I’m going to ask them what they’re doing, how they’re dating, who they’re dating, where they’re going and what they’re doing. I’m constantly asking those questions and making sure I’m in touch with the customer. | Sam Yagan |
One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It’s really freaking hard to get critical mass. | Sam Yagan |
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn’t change human nature. | Sam Yagan |
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it’s really up to you. | Sam Yagan |
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting – this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That’s important. But it’s not transformative. | Sam Yagan |
In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off? | Sam Yagan |
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it’s unlikely that humans’ early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation. | Annalee Newitz |
I’m a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things. | Lilly Singh |
People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months – and then they tell you, ‘You’re not who I was dating the first month!’ | Manny Montana |
That’s the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does. | Riki Lindhome |
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. | Lynn Coady |
I’m not a dating person. | Kourtney Kardashian |
That’s the miracle of Amazon! It’s like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank. | Nigel Hamilton |
The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look. | Kim Kardashian |
Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers. | Steve Erickson |
While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don’t know why every last person out there isn’t dating a writer. | Rachel Bloom |
There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister – especially hockey players. | Patrick Kane |
I’ve surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads. | Taylor Hicks |
I’m very happy to be part of a generation where you don’t have to say that you’re gay. It’s just like, ‘I’m dating a dude,’ or, ‘I’m dating a girl,’ and I love it. I think it’s a great time. | Keke Palmer |
My mum wants me to get married – and have children, of course. She’s met Gaga; we’ve been dating a while. We’re in a committed relationship, and I’m really happy in my relationship. I’m a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens. | Taylor Kinney |
As I’ve told Tyler, there’s not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We’re just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I’ll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums. | Josh Dun |
For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself – it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic. | Adrian Tomine |
I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship! | Karen Salmansohn |
My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. | Kangana Ranaut |
Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating. | Rhys Darby |
You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You’re answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don’t know if I would ever be able to. | Priyanka Chopra |
I have a Tinder account. Now I’ve done Bumble, and I’ve tried this other one, and the way I justified it is that… because I’m on TV, I shouldn’t be eliminated from participating in what’s going on in the world. But people are always like, ‘I can’t believe you’re on a dating app!’ | Eric Stonestreet |
Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I’m a white woman; they know he’s a black man. That’s not news anymore. | Nancy Pickard |
I’m not traditional at all. It’s not that I’m against marriage; it just never mattered that much to me. If I was dating someone who getting married was very important to them, then absolutely. I’d have no problem. I love the idea of finding someone to be a great father figure to Jasper and to share my life with. | Georgina Bloomberg |
Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don’t last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it’s hard to have a relationship with someone like that. | Julia Stiles |
I have no dating life. | Sara Sampaio |
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That’s what I took from them, and that’s how my wife and I are. I still feel like we’re dating. | Billy Crystal |
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I always play women I would date. | Angelina Jolie |
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people. | Nicole Scherzinger |
There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend. | Jack Nicholson |
I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog. | Wendy Liebman |
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. | Tim Allen |
I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that. | Mitch Hedberg |
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. | Joey Adams |
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. | Billie Holiday |
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. | Orson Welles |
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. | Maya Angelou |
If you don’t have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don’t go looking for someone. When it’s right, they’ll come to you. | Carmen Electra |
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. | William Shakespeare |
You can’t keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick. | Heather Locklear |
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I’m attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He’s usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it’s strange. | Megan Fox |
Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It’s about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? | Neil LaBute |
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. | Honore de Balzac |
My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn’t worry about being cool. | Selena Gomez |
I’ve been dating since I was fifteen. I’m exhausted. Where is he? | Kristin Davis |
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day – and another, in case it doesn’t rain. | Mae West |
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. | Ben Kingsley |
I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway. | Wale |
I’m dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. | Garry Shandling |
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. | Scott Adams |
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. | Kim Cattrall |
A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man. | Samuel Goldwyn |
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend. | Lucy Liu |
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. | Natalie Portman |
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. | Wayne Dyer |
I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating. | Leonardo DiCaprio |
I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl. | Krysten Ritter |
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. | Helen Rowland |
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. | Thomas Fuller |
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. | Keanu Reeves |
When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested. | Beyonce Knowles |
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true. | Loretta Young |
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along. | Joyce Brothers |
I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all. | Anna Kournikova |
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with. | Clark Gable |
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you’re going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that. | Usher |
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. | William Congreve |
I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that. | Mary Frann |
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. | Francesca Annis |
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. | William Butler Yeats |
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure. | Joe Rogan |
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me. | John Mayer |
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. | Andre Maurois |
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. | Stevie Nicks |
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming! | Anne Hathaway |
I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend. | Taylor Swift |
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. | Matthew Perry |
I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it. | Shaun Cassidy |
I don’t date my girlfriend because she’s a model. I date her because I love her. | Adam Levine |
Whenever I date a guy, I think, ‘Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?’ | Rita Rudner |
If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else. | Jennifer Lopez |
A simple compliment goes a really long way – for a guy to just come over and say, ‘You have great hair’ or ‘I really like your dress,’ and then just smile and walk away. That’s a great move, because he’s sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won’t lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn’t interested. | Stacy Keibler |
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me. | Orson Welles |
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you. | Wendy Liebman |
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they’d much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. | Albert Ellis |
If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice. | Jimmy Fallon |
So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad! | Hoda Kotb |
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. | Anna Held |
To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads. | Foxy Brown |
All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song. | Kesha |
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. | Jim Bishop |
I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love. | Charlotte Arnold |
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. | Soren Kierkegaard |
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life. | Daphne Zuniga |
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule. | Minnie Driver |
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend. | Pink |
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn’t touch me. It was infuriating to them. | Mark Hoppus |
When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life. | Rachael Ray |
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date. | Nora Ephron |
The sea hath fish for every man. | William Camden |
Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it’s what’s inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It’s giving. | Crystal Waters |
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. | James Levine |
It’s weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends. | Carrot Top |
I’m quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That’s been my approach, for the most part. | Orlando Bloom |
You’ll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart. | Anna Held |
My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. | Jay London |
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered. | Taylor Swift |
I’m really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you’re on a red carpet or not. Even if you’re just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in. | Katy Perry |
I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. | Hugh Hefner |
I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I’d be really happy. But without the brother thing. | Patricia Velasquez |
If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she’s an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun. | Michael Patrick King |
I don’t know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest – it doesn’t exist. | Richard Gere |
I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world. | Justin Timberlake |
I’ve been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21… younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I’ve always been kind of young for my age. | Dana Delany |
I don’t know the first real thing about the dating game. I don’t know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general. | Jason Schwartzman |
I don’t like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, ‘broad’ to me is not a detrimental term for women; it’s simply another word for female. Anyway, I don’t really go out a whole lot, because there aren’t many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with – at least not an evening in public. | Joe Namath |
Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, ‘He’s very odd, but he likes to cook. He’s creepy, but he makes good pancakes!’ | Zoe Lister-Jones |
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. | Gene Tierney |
Right now I’m pretty single… My career is my boyfriend. | Christina Aguilera |
Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That’s who I’m dating. | Ben Affleck |
It’s the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men. | Nicholas Haslam |
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy. | Charles Kuralt |
It’s not that I find it hard to meet girls – they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I’m interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types. | Rupert Grint |
I’ve dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage. | Lara Flynn Boyle |
My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad. | Mark Ronson |
Am I still interested in a guy’s body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a ‘vibe’ kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus. | Carmen Electra |
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it’s a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend. | Betty Dodson |
If I’m with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I’m with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you’re supposed to have a role. You’re not allowed to just be yourself. | Candace Bushnell |
I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word ‘YOU’ and I just put the letter ‘U’. | Kelly Osbourne |
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. | Mickey Rooney |
I’m not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy. | Vanessa Hudgens |
Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too. | Vanessa Hudgens |
I’m a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh. | Eva Longoria |
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit. | Patti Stanger |
I’ve dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look. | Ryan Seacrest |
It’s ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it’s like, ‘Well, of course he did.’ With me, it should be, ‘Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I’ll get me a Kristen Bell.’ But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with. | Dax Shepard |
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to. | Rita Rudner |
In my experience with women that I’ve dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren’t a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time. | Tim Meadows |
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn’t care about anything but boyfriends. | Madonna Ciccone |
Back in high school, I went on dates, but I was too focused on my career. My parents were like, ‘It’s nice to have a boyfriend, but it’s even nicer to own your house when you’re 21.’ | Amber Riley |
I’d got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don’t mention your age, don’t mention that you want a child – because they would just run out the door. | Denise Van Outen |
I’ve never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It’s been a much slower process for me each time I’ve gone into a relationship. | Leonardo DiCaprio |
I don’t think a powerful man would be interesting unless he’d be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men! | Dorothy Stratten |
It’s always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating. | Luke Wilson |
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to. | Spalding Gray |
I didn’t have a financial need, and I wasn’t very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment. | Candice Bergen |
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine. | James Lafferty |
Which is, I’m an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. | Garry Shandling |
I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It’s needing people who understand your work schedule. | Jennifer Love Hewitt |
Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me. | Rachelle Lefevre |
I also like men who like dogs. I couldn’t date a man who doesn’t like my dog. | Kristin Davis |
I’ve given up looking for a boyfriend. That’s not to say I won’t be interested if the right guy comes along. But I’m not in a hurry. | Emily VanCamp |
I don’t understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I’m interested in someone, and I don’t want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I’m not interested in that person. | Britney Spears |
Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him. | Fred Armisen |
I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do. | Gloria Allred |
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.’ | Sia |
I’m enjoying dating. I’m single, though, I’m not in a relationship. | Matt Czuchry |
We don’t do ‘dating’ in Sweden. | Caroline Winberg |
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache. | John Bytheway |
Coy Wire played in the NFL for 9 years and is now a motivational speaker and has a book out called ‘Change Your Mind.’ He is an amazing person with such positive energy! When Kroy and I first met and started dating, there weren’t a whole lot of people that supported us, but Coy always did. | Kim Zolciak-Biermann |
I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare. | John Mayer |
Women in their thirties are much more nervous about dating. They feel time is ‘running out for them. They want to get married and have a family. The women I see in their forties and fifties know what they want. They are amazing, confident women with good jobs, but they are just struggling to find someone who is their equal. | Matthew Hussey |
My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away. | Jenny McCarthy |
Whenever you have an ex, and they’re like, ‘I hope we can still be friends!’ and you weren’t friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really? | Ed Sheeran |
Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It’s not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people. | Alexander Koch |
It’s weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It’s a part of the business that grosses me out. I’m always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they’re also famous, and they can’t live their life. | Andy Samberg |
I’m a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It’s led me to some great things and also some sad things. It’s made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating. | Alexander Koch |
Look at the Prius. It’s a nerd car. Yeah, you’re being environmentally friendly, but your dating life is gonna suck. | Xzibit |
I got married at 18 after dating my boyfriend for about a year. It was quick, I know. My husband joined the Army, and I thought I’d go to college. But we moved to Fort Hood for his job with no money, not even a car. | Anna Todd |
If you’re dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don’t think I’ll still go to the football games. | Nicolle Wallace |
I love sushi. Once on Valentine’s Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much. | Ella Eyre |
I am just scared to death of online dating. | Michaela Watkins |
I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don’t have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be. | John Stamos |
No matter how liberal or modern a family is, there will always be resistance when someone discloses that they are dating someone. | Gautham Menon |
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation. | Sam Yagan |
Everybody dates these days. Like you get to know someone before you end up getting married, committing for a lifetime relationship. So dating is cool, date as much as you want, get to know the person. | Vaani Kapoor |
I’ve never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called ‘Make It Last Forever: The Do’s and The Dont’s,’ which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me. | Keith Sweat |
‘Dating In The Dark’ is a unique show that is going to bring something very new to the table for the audiences. The format will make people look beyond the general dating norms of our society: who knows, maybe even reinvent them. | Nora Fatehi |
Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love. | Rashida Jones |
Trans-dating is hardcore, and it’s really scary. And that’s coming from me, someone who couldn’t be dating in a more open-minded Manhattan pool of artsy boys and creative folk. Not saying it all sucks. I’m just saying it’s not easy. | Hari Nef |
I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don’t agree. So for me, it’s not dating, it’s more so friendship. | Omarion |
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever. | Rosario Dawson |
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. | Ami Bera |
I wouldn’t tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody. | Kristen Stewart |
People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that’s not how things works. These are real human beings. They don’t just date to get more famous. They’re already the most famous artists! | Madison Beer |
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don’t want to put myself in the position where I’m in a monogamous relationship right now. I’m not dating just one person. ‘Sex and the City’ changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people. | Lindsay Lohan |
I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs. | Susan Isaacs |
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. | Drew Barrymore |
I like the idea of dating, but I’m not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It’s hard to be in a relationship unless you’re ready to go public with it. So it’s a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don’t want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder. | Cory Monteith |
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved. | Gordon B. Hinckley |
I don’t believe in casual dating; I would rather be in a proper relationship. | Vaani Kapoor |
I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: ‘political correctness.’ | Meghan Daum |
Everybody’s got baggage, and not just the classic, ‘Oh I have so much baggage,’ but everyone comes with so much context, and you’re not just dating a person: you’re dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other’s context. | Emily V. Gordon |
It’s a common misunderstanding, that when a bisexual person is dating someone of the opposite sex that they are now straight, or if they are dating someone of the same sex they are now gay. | Courtney Act |
That’s the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that. | Dawn French |
Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: ‘Really? I do, too.’ | Tom Cotton |
When it comes to dating, I’m straightforward and traditional with a twist. | Luke Pasqualino |
I’ve had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I’m dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn’t know, though. | Julie Bowen |
I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn’t start dating until I was in my 30s. | Geri Halliwell |
The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they’re dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you’re involved with read them. That’s what’s tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don’t want to get myself in trouble! | Emily Meade |
There were dozens of dating apps when Bumble came on the scene, but they weren’t able to attract critical mass in a young professional group. | Whitney Wolfe Herd |
It’s easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We’re so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating – in many ways, we’re addicted to our devices. | Saroo Brierley |
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. | Emma Watson |
I’ve thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control. | Whitney Wolfe Herd |
Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik’s Cube literally with his eyes closed because it’s just an algorithm. | Ashley Rickards |
People’s sexuality is often defined by who we’re partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I’ve had countless tiny ‘coming out’ moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating. | Stephanie Beatriz |
My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in ’86 and she graduated in ’88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff. | Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
It’s just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone. | Bridget Hall |
Each NFL team has its own policy about their own players dating their own cheerleaders. And in the Raiders there is no policy against it, though it is not encouraged. Yes, there are successful relationships between players and Raiderettes. | Emily Compagno |
There’s kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn’t. It’s kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don’t. You can’t really say why. | Katherine Waterston |
I’ve never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it. | America Ferrera |
I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looked like Johnny Depp – and he knows that. We’ve been together for twelve years, and he still looks like Johnny Depp. | Eliza Coupe |
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I’d go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos. | Halsey |
I don’t want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: ‘Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.’ That, to me, isn’t really who I am. | Chris Young |
All my life, men have told me I wasn’t pretty enough – even the men I was dating. And I’d be like, ‘Well, why are you with me, then?’ It’s always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I’m cute, I can’t see it. I don’t see it no matter what anybody says. | Lil’ Kim |
I don’t need to make an announcement about who I’m dating. It’s up to me to decide when and what I want to share about my personal life, and it is up to the audience to decide how they look at it. | Shibani Dandekar |
I can’t imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life? | Loretta Young |
I was dating someone and wanted to get married to him. But just because casting couch exists in TFI and I work here, he didn’t respect me. | Tejaswi Madivada |
I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much. | Drake |
Any online dating profile is about making us more human, more three-dimensional. | Matthew Hussey |
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw ‘my people’ portrayed accurately. | Paul Feig |
Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism. | Heather Mac Donald |
Evolution is unobservable. It’s based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to ‘one side is all we will let you hear.’ | Ray Comfort |
I’m not very good at dating. | Evan Peters |
Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I’ve been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I’m just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me. | Angie Stone |
I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they’re incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward. | Chris Pine |
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. | Steve Albini |
I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you’re dating or seeing have something special and it’s a more special occasion. | Ben Savage |
I started painting my nails and started wearing some women’s clothing, but that whole side of me always caused problems in my intimate relationships. There was a lot of shame attached to it. I’d talk to people I was dating about it but still feel ashamed. | Teddy Geiger |
What online dating did was offer me the opportunity to go out with a bunch of different people from different industries; I really didn’t want to limit myself with people who are in the entertainment industry. | Essence Atkins |
I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus. | Daphne Zuniga |
My daughter’s mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I’m most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes. | Tyson Gay |
I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace. | Halsey |
Even when I was dating a man I always said I’d never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It wouldn’t feel right. | Jessica Origliasso |
I’m Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you’ll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference. | Serinda Swan |
When I started ‘DailyGrace,’ I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, ‘Will he laugh at this?’ But somehow that’s turned into an audience that’s mostly 15-year-old girls. | Grace Helbig |
My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us. | Trace Lysette |
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my ‘museum’. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades. | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Golf and dating don’t mix. | Larry David |
It’s really weird when people scrutinize every little thing about you and talk about your outfits and your weight and who you’re dating… and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. | Mischa Barton |
The very phrase ‘Oscar night’ used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing – dating myself – it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films’ failure – once again – to be honored. | Dick Cavett |
The Bachelor’… and ‘The Bachelorette’… and ‘Bachelor in Paradise’… and the ‘After the Final Rose ceremony’. I love a competition dating show. | Erin Foster |
When you’re thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you’re thinking about when you’re going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward. | Sam Yagan |
It’s not always the case that when you’re dating someone that the family likes you. | Shibani Dandekar |
I try not to read the stuff online because it’s so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he’s not black. It was an interesting thing to read. | Taylour Paige |
I’m in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that’s not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating. | Selena Gomez |
I don’t hate dating people, but I’m not on social media or anything. | Jonathan Groff |
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. | Christina Hendricks |
Sometimes we put so much effort into things we’re doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don’t stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort. | Emily V. Gordon |
I don’t do a lot of dating. I guess it’s kind of like everyone is always trying to set me up with somebody, so we go out and hang out at a club or somewhere. I think dates are weird. | Matt Cohen |
It’s a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know? | Demi Lovato |
For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. | Eli Roth |
I go out to dinner occasionally and that’s the sum of my dating life. | Sophie Dahl |
As and when I get into a relationship, I’ll flaunt her to the world. I’m looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I’m not very much for casual dating. I’m such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business. | Suresh Raina |
I don’t really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I’d just rather not talk about who I’m dating. | Josh Hartnett |
Dating isn’t easy. | Julian Edelman |
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. ‘YouTube’ was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else. | Kevin Systrom |
You don’t need to know who I’m dating. You don’t need to know what I’m doing. I’m fine with everybody not knowing that. | Eva Longoria |
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. | Martha Beck |
It’s usually drawing on personal experience. I don’t think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else’s life. Like ‘Far From Me’ – I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me. | John Prine |
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad’s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. | George Clooney |
People say, ‘Just say who you’re dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.’ It’s like, No they won’t! They’ll ask for specifics. | Kristen Stewart |
We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs. | Zig Ziglar |
I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it’s not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I’ve felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better. | Taylor Hicks |
Were I to put myself on… one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I’m regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better. | Marya Hornbacher |
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn’t know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund. | Gary Weiss |
I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it’s not a social network. It’s not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it’s a place you go to interact with someone you’ve never met before. | Sam Yagan |
I’m so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I’m big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something’s not working, it’s time to not hold people back. | Ginnifer Goodwin |
I don’t think I’m misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on – my body, my hair, or who I’m dating – which has never really served me as an actor. It’s served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career. | Kelly Brook |
We live in a world of social media, dating apps, online profiles where everyone is portraying themselves in 2D, trying to look cool. Portray yourself in three dimensions. | Matthew Hussey |
I’m the one who’s dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I’m probably not the first person on their list – the weird, quirky, funny girl. | Whitney Cummings |
It’s a really deep and layered psychological situation – making music with someone – if they’re trying to make something real and personal. It’s almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other – not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature. | Arca |
I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn’t start dating until I was 18. | Michelle Ryan |
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman’s best bet when it’s hot and sticky. | Roger Stone |
I’ve gotten a lot more disciplined since dating Sue. | Megan Rapinoe |
Halloween might be a time that’s renowned for ghosts, but we no longer experience ghosts only on Halloween. In our dating lives, we are now used to being ‘ghosted’ the whole year round. | Matthew Hussey |
Yogi Berra is the recipient of ten World Series rings, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and was named to the All-Century Team. Married to the same woman for more than half a century he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Born: 12 May 1925, The Hill, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: 22 September 2015, West Caldwell, New Jersey, United States
Number: 8 (New York Yankees / Catcher)
Height: 1.73 m
Dates joined: 1965 (New York Mets), 1946 (New York Yankees)
Spouse: Carmen Berra (m. 1949–2014)
Hall of fame induction: 1972
List of Quotes
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. |
It’s like deja-vu, all over again. |
Even Napoleon had his Watergate. |
I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. |
He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious. |
How can you think and hit at the same time? |
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. |
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. |
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. |
I never said most of the things I said. |
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. |
I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question. |
I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. |
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. |
If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ’em. |
It gets late early out there. |
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility. |
It ain’t over till it’s over. |
In baseball, you don’t know nothing. |
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. |
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. |
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer. |
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? |
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. |
It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it. |
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. |
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. |
Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting. |
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. |
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. |
The future ain’t what it used to be. |
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. |
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. |
There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em. |
All pitchers are liars or crybabies. |
We made too many wrong mistakes. |
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. |
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. |
You can observe a lot by just watching. |
You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours. |
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. |
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. |
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. |
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. |
If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be. |
We have deep depth. |
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? |
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. |
I never said most of the things I said. |
I don’t mean to be funny. |
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. |
I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em. |
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank of General of the Army.
Born: 14 October 1890, Denison, Texas, United States
Died: 28 March 1969, Washington, D.C., United States
Presidential term: 20 January 1953 – 20 January 1961
Party: Republican Party
Spouse: Mamie Eisenhower (m. 1916–1969)
Vice president: Richard Nixon (1953–1961)
President number: 34
Quotes
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. |
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. |
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. |
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. |
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. |
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. |
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. |
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. |
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. |
The sergeant is the Army. |
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. |
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. |
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. |
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. |
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. |
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. |
War settles nothing. |
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. |
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. |
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. |
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. |
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. |
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. |
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. |
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. |
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. |
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. |
Pessimism never won any battle. |
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. |
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. |
Our pleasures were simple – they included survival. |
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. |
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. |
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy. |
There is no victory at bargain basement prices. |
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law. |
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. |
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. |
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! |
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. |
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. |
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them. |
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. |
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. |
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. |
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. |
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. |
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. |
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. |
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. |
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. |
In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? |
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. |
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. |
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. |
In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains. |
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. |
Only Americans can hurt America. |
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. |
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. |
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. |
Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you? |
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. |
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. |
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. |
‘Worry’ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use. |
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. |
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. |
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. |
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. |
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. |
Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. |
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins. |
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. |
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. |
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. |
I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. |
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. |
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. |
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. |
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. |
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. |
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. |
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? |
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. |
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. |
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. |
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. |
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. |
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. |
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then. |
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. |
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. |
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. |
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. |
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. |
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. |
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. |
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy. |
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. |
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. |
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. |
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. |
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. |
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. |
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. |
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. |
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. |
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. |
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. |
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. |
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! |
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. |
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. |
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. |
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. |
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. |
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. |
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. |
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. |
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. |
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables.
Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a “single individual”, giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment
Quotes
Once you label me you negate me. |
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. |
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. |
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. |
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. |
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. |
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. |
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. |
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. |
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. |
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. |
Purity of heart is to will one thing. |
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. |
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. |
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. |
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. |
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. |
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. |
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. |
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. |
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. |
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. |
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. |
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. |
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. |
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. |
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. |
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. |
Be that self which one truly is. |
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. |
Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. |
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. |
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. |
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. |
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. |
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. |
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. |
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
Don’t forget to love yourself. |
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. |
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. |
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. |
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. |
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. |
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. |
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. |
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. |
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both. |
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. |
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. |
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. |
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. |
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. |
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. |
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. |
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. |
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. |
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. |
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. |
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. |
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. |
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. |
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. |
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. |
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. |
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. |
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. |
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. |
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. |
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. |
Don’t forget to love yourself. |
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. |
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. |
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. |
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
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