Affair Quotations

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.

I'm a stage actor. You know, I was - I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I've always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.