“I love people and entertaining. The fact I can still do it, and it's with my wife is phenomenal. I wanna reach 95 years!” PeopleWifeMy WifePhenomenal Author:Marty Allen
“I feel it's right for me to wear a Canadian flag baseball hat. Regardless of the fact that my wife is Canadian and I would support her throughout, the spirit of the Olympic Games is to have all these countries together to push each other.” CountryTogetherSpiritSupportWifeBaseballMy WifeOlympic Games Author:Ashton Eaton
“I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!” WifeMy WifeSkeptical Author:James Ponsoldt
“I listened to 19 guilty verdicts for my wife and me. And all I could do was sob.” WifeMy WifeGuilty Author:Bob McDonnell
“Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."” ThinkingGuyFunWifeJokesMy WifeIdiotSpontaneousInfluentialFidelityLetterman Author:John Flansburgh
“The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting it as in interpreting what my wife wants me to do. Only the stakes are even higher!” BookWifeMy WifeWant Me Author:Craig Blomberg
“I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.” PeopleThinkingWifeMy Wife Author:Barack Obama
“There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is so grounded. Even my wife pointed it out when we were in the city, she said that even the architecture is grounded in Chicago, it's so solid. Because it has to deal with winters. There is something about Chicago that keeps people centered and grounded.” PeopleCharacterWifeWinterMy WifeArchitecture Author:Jake M. Johnson
“Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help give opportunity, particularly to kids growing up in very disadvantaged situations.And my initial kind of sense was, the government does that primarily, and what we should mostly do is pay our taxes. My wife said, no, I don't think that's quite right for us. We need to do more. We can do better.” ThinkingGivingKindHelpingKidsOpportunitySituationGrowing UpWifeTaxesMy WifeRetiredPhilanthropic Author:Steve Ballmer
“A lot of people have a hard time living out of a suitcase, being on the road constantly in different cities. For us it's just kind of what we do. You do get homesick. I miss my wife, I miss my home, I miss my dogs, I miss my kitchen, which is something I like to do outside of this is cook. You miss the simple things. But when you look at the big picture we get to see a crazy amount of cities and the people we get to meet, all over the world it kind of makes up for it. It makes you realize how lucky you are because it could be gone tomorrow you just never know.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentHomeRealizingSimpleWifeCrazyDogMissingTomorrowLuckyMy WifeKitchenHard TimesMy DogSimple ThingsBig PictureHomesickLucky You Author:Barry Kerch
“Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a misconception. The higher truth is: "This wife is God's beloved daughter, entrusted in my care. And the way I serve God is by giving her respect, protection, appreciation and empowerment. This is what God wants me to give his child."” ThinkingGivingChildrenCareSpiritualParentWifePerspectiveTruth IsHusbandDaughterEmpowermentAppreciationMy WifeProtectionMy ChildrenBelovedWant MeServing GodMisconception Author:Radhanath Swami
“My wife told me, "Listen, you have to do something big, beautiful story." I remember that I read The Shack script and I told her that there is a big message over here, and as a Jew, I read the script, and I didn't see anything that connects to religion. It's not about religion, it's about faith, it's about God, and I connected with it, because from my point of view, there is God in this world.” WorldBeautifulRememberWifeJewMy WifePoint Of ViewShack Author:Aviv Alush
“My wife and I have now founded Lavender Pictures. If one has one's own company, there are very few surprises, but there's still the actual thrill of trying to get these projects off the ground. We're meeting with some measure of success. Always, now and at any stage of my career, I'm open to ambush, but there have been the most extraordinary set of coincidences, which continues through my journey, and I find it thrilling. Often, out of left field and quite randomly, comes a project and I think, "My god, there you are!" It's quite beautiful, really.” ThinkingTryingBeautifulWifeJourneyMeetingsSurpriseExtraordinaryMy WifeCoincidenceMeasure Of Success Author:Ben Kingsley
“What fuels my optimism is just an appreciation for life. I wake up every day thankful to be alive. I certainly have a lot to live for - not only personally, but all those people I'm fighting for, and to be with my kids, my wife Stacy, to see them grow and be a part of it. I'm certainly by no means ready to give up or cash in.” PeopleGivingMeanKidsFightingWifeGiving UpOptimismWake UpAppreciationMy Wife Author:Craig Sager
“What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not so much what they're going to do, but how as a parent, how my wife and I as parents, how best we should prepare them for the world. And I know everybody does this, I think everybody stays up at night thinking about the best thing for their kids, and astronauts are no different.” ThinkingWorldKindDifferentKidsNightParentWifeMy WifeAstronaut Author:Leroy Chiao
“I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.” KidsWifeDadMy Wife Author:Les Wexner
“The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.” WifeMusicianMy WifeAsk MeBe PreparedDeafRock Music Author:Dave Grohl
“If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.” ThinkingWorldDifficultWifeMy WifeGreat Power Author:Greg Grunberg
“My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.” RunningUniverseNiceWifeSmartMy WifeProducersWorriedHelpfulNeuroticJenniferReally SmartDamonMementoBoiler Author:Chris Messina
“I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly finished." I've got it there. And then there's that whole other phase of moving on to properly amp up the sentences and sometimes to move stuff around as well.” ThinkingSometimesMovingWifeMy WifeCompletion Author:Geoff Dyer
“I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"” KidsMotherTakenWifeLuckyEmptyMy WifeDancerBalletBallet Dancer Author:Tim Matheson
“You know, when you engage so much with somebody it seems like the subjects never end. You can actually talk forever, and I felt like that with my wife. And at some point we shut up and got married.” ForeverWifeMarriedMy WifeShut Up Author:Mauro Remiddi
“All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.” WifeMy FamilyMy WifePoetry Is Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.” UnderstandingWifeMy WifeFeel Better Author:Damian Loeb
“My wife says in Richard Stark's world, the honest citizens are goofy. Okay, they are. I don't know if it's good or bad, but because he's outside his own world, it sort of freed up the environment around him to be a little more looser and goofier.” WorldEnvironmentWifeHonestOkayMy WifeGoofy Author:Donald E. Westlake
“I can now officially to the wife "It's work, darling" I have to watch racing. I have to watch every second. And actually, my wife who can't stand racing has got into it and once she understood the politics it becomes more interesting for non-racing people I think.” PeopleThinkingInterestingWifeMy WifeRacing Author:Asif Kapadia
“In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.” PeopleFightingHurtWifeShameCommunicateMy WifeArguing Author:Aaron Paul
“My life is very full; my wife makes it so. I'm 82 years old and I'm having the best time I've ever had in my life. I want to share that with all of you. Find a way to do that, find a way to be at peace with yourself, to enjoy the little things in life. Make them your own.” EnjoyWifeShareMy WifeLittle ThingsLittle Things In Life Author:Tony Curtis
“What would be a perfect day for me? I'd like to fly the Millennium Falcon to a small café outside of Vienna, and there's a PlayStation 3 or an XBox set up there. The family is there, and there would be brand new Star Wars Lego sets so my seven-year-old and four-year-old would be the happiest people on earth. My wife could get a massage and manicure/pedicure. Oh, and pork is being fed to us all day.” PeopleWarEarthPerfectWifeMy WifeMassage Author:Joel McHale
“I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.” SuccessfulWifeMy WifeHonestlyMake SenseLazyOlympian Author:Michael Phelps
“Most people have wanted me to go back to football. Which is cool, but I think at this point, some things are just more important than football. Football has afforded me an opportunity to take care of my family, to live out a dream, to meet people, to go different places I would never have been able to go. Football has been a huge part of my life. Giving that up isn't an easy thing. But I would rather us live in a country where there is freedom and justice for all than to be catching a touchdown. And like I told my wife, the America that I don't want to live in, is Charlottesville.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantDifferentCountryDreamCareOpportunityEasyJusticeWifeFootballMy FamilyTake CareMy WifeDifferent Place Author:Anquan Boldin
“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.” ThinkingImportantDifferentCountryCareLanguageTermWifeEqualMy WifeHealth CareCommodityExhilaratingSocial Service Author:Uwe Reinhardt
“I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don't really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup. I once wrote in the chat, a long time ago, that my wife wore no mascara. She later informed me dryly that she has worn mascara every day that I ever knew her. Or maybe eye liner. I forget. Which is the one you always wear, girls.” ThinkingLongEyeGirlForgetWifeMy WifeMakeup Author:Gene Weingarten
“My wife and I are just praying daily for our kids. We are trying to raise our kids to go all in for God. But I am keenly aware of this fact: If I hope to see my kids live an "all in" life for God, they must first see me doing it. My wife and I know that leading by example is going to be the loudest voice of influence in their lives. I've stopped trying to be a perfect parent, and instead I'm realizing that my kids aren't expecting me to be perfect, but they do need me to be present, focused on them, always making sure how much they know how much I love them and how much Jesus loves them.” TryingKidsJesusParentRealizingPerfectWifeInfluencePrayingMy WifeFocusedExpectingJesus Love Author:Matthew West
“My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.” BelieveSometimesFallWinningWifeTroubleBattleMy WifeSillyIdiotCriticizeGoogle Author:Buzz Bissinger
“What will always be possible is for someone to walk into a dark room and experience a film and connect to it. And that's why I make my films - for people to go and have that experience. That's really the whole dream for me, so that hasn't gone anywhere. What has gone somewhere is making the numbers add up on each side of it. And who knows? I've had all kinds of freak-outs. I got married recently, and my wife listened to me go off the other day on this fear that maybe our culture has just moved beyond art entirely. Maybe we don't need it anymore.” PeopleKindArtDreamFilmCultureDarkWifeMarriedMovedMy WifeAll Kinds Author:Andrew Bujalski
“I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.” PeopleEyeReadingHoursWifeStudentsCollegeMovedTiredMy WifeObsessive Author:Mark Helprin
“Me and my wife have been on the same kind of routine since we got married, man. Just praying together in the morning, praying at night together. And I think having her, that support right there! I always try to make sure my kids grow up in the right home, I set the right example for them. Because I didn't always have my father there for me and my sister didn't have that either. So I just want to make sure they grow up different. They grow up seeing how marriage is supposed to be and I think that's what really gives me motivation.” ThinkingMenGivingTryingKindDifferentHomeKidsTogetherMotivationNightFatherMorningSupportGrowing UpWifePrayingMarriedMy WifeMy Sister Author:Chris Harris, Jr.
“I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired or when I've been thrown up on for the second time that I'm just a tired man trying to keep it together. I've had a lot of jobs over the years and people who make television - it's ridiculous how much they're lauded and paid. It's irresponsible and stupid. But it is hard work. It's very difficult to balance having three young kids and working like that. So I owe my wife an enormous debt of gratitude. I feel guilty that the kids had to be grown in her body and she hasn't been able to work.” PeopleMenTryingKidsTogetherDifficultWifeStupidHard WorkBalanceGratitudeTiredFeministMy WifeRidiculousGuiltyProgressive Author:Rob Delaney
“Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.” PeopleKindMomentsSituationWifeTearsDrinkMy WifeMedical Author:Ben Doller
“Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.” WritingWifeStyleLogicMy WifeGet AwayAvoiding Author:Ben Doller
“I think it's important for women to be patient with their men. Try not chastise them to the point where they never want to try again. Because it's inevitable - we're going to screw up. And this is not me as a man telling women to be patient. What I'm saying is, as a man, I know the only way I'm going to figure this stuff out is if I have the support of the woman I love. I will mess up and say the wrong thing and interrupt my wife because it's a learned behavior I've done my whole life. I don't have all the answers - all I'm trying to do is start a conversation.” ThinkingMenTryingImportantDoneSupportWifeBehaviorPatientMy WifeWhole LifeMessInevitableBe PatientTry Again Author:Justin Baldoni
“I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only having one woman now. If you can look at a continuum of my career, it's been an evolution of a real dude. So when I say I take my wife to the strip club, we're there, at the five-dollar joint. More than anything, I want people to take away that I'm not mainstream act.” PeopleRealRichWifeEvolutionRapMy WifeBrokeBullshit Author:Killer Mike
“A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.” ReasonHelpingWifeProudTerribleMovedGuiltDrinkingDivorceMy WifeHatedIgnoredSpouseProud Of Me Author:Dick Van Dyke
“If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox Of Our Time." I didn't write "George Carlin On Aging." I didn't write a eulogy for my wife after she died. I didn't write the New Orleans thing. I didn't write "I Am A Bad American." None of them. You know what I've decided to do? I'm going to get a little cheap put-it-together-yourself website called NotMe.com.” WritingChanceWifeAgingMy WifeParadoxWebsiteEulogy Author:George Carlin
“I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.” RunningMotherPresidentBornNaturalCitiesWifeNew YorkCollegeFineDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterNew York CityMexicoPassports Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.” WifeMy WifeTraffic Author:Evel Knievel
“My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.” WayFirstsLooksI CanCoursesLiteratureAudienceWifeToughMy WifeBreakfastScareTough Lady Author:Dean Koontz
“I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.” ThinkingTryingLittlesStillsMotherBitsSportsWifeReaderHabitLittle BitDaughterDown AndMy WifeEnvyMy TimeMy DaughterBad Habits Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.” BeliefWifeWonderfulEverydayMy WifeEveryday Life Author:Christian Bale