Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there. – Robert Cormier
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can’t have a trusting relationship with his closest friend. – Rafael Yglesias
What I’ve learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break. – Preity Zinta
Tech companies don’t exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic. – Ryan Holmes
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. – Robert Rauschenberg
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, ‘The Tempest’ loses much of its resonance. – Robert Gottlieb
There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. – Shia LaBeouf
I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn’t exactly on weight, I wasn’t good-looking. – Ronda Rousey
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. – Rachel Weisz
It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. – Rick Baker
The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn’t strictly with people and audiences. It’s also with advertisers, and that’s the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills. – Robert McChesney
My relationship to ‘Rocky Horror’ probably started when I was younger than my parents would like me to admit. – Ryan McCartan
Here’s an irony of the history of conservatism’s relationship with business and business’s relationship with conservatism: ‘Wall Street’ used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties’ greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital). – Rick Perlstein
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. – Oliver Hudson
Israel’s foreign policy has three points: the relationship with the U.S., the relationship with the U.S., and the relationship with the U.S. – Reuven Rivlin
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good. – Robert Winston
The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don’t realise when love happens. – Riteish Deshmukh
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I’m this guy who comes in from book – and movie – land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. – Richard Price
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don’t mean to. – Richard Russo
Donald Trump recognizes that a good leader is going to protect America’s interests by making sure that we have a relationship with Russia: that our interests are protected, not theirs. – Sean Spicer
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship – positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. – Rob McKenna
When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada. – Paul Cellucci
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years. – Salman Rushdie
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor’s lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren’t old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. – Poppy Z. Brite
Whenever you’re in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person. – Olly Murs