Ex Quotes

#1. I plan to march to the ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea," the young King said, his mismatched eyes shining with certainty. "And it's Al-ex-an-der." He smiled. "You Persians always butcher my name.

Kat Ross

#2. Ohmigod, i'm so gonna kill Tracy for this. I didn't like Ada even before that bitch hooked up with Vic. But this party is so bad, if ex-prisoners of war attended it, they'd reminisce nostalgically about the days shit was shoved up their fingernails Camille muttered.

Kristen Ashley

#3. All I'm saying is I've never seen my ex and satan in the same room.

Unknown

#4. In fact, he was the most stubborn thing I had ever met besides my ex-husband, and not any easier to mount.

Lynn Bohart

#5. Love is to be feared by power because it leads to rebellion. "Why do slaves love?" asked ex-slave Harriet Jacobs and I think the answer is, because it is in the human fibre to do so, to exercise this natural power to (re)create the world.

Rod Dubey

#6. There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

Natalie Zea

#7. Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie."
"What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?"
"No," Scarlet said. "A case could be made for poisoning your ex-boyfriend however.

Gabrielle Zevin

#8. Christiana as much as I still love you and never wished for our marriage to end, you were, you are and will always be a Barrington. Your father has seen to that her ex-husband bristled

Peggy Hattendorf

#9. sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman,

Various

#10. In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.

S.A. Tawks

#11. In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.

Benjamin Jealous

#12. My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.

Tyrese Gibson

#13. You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.

Rick Riordan

#14. Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Chester A. Arthur

#15. Forrest Gump had gotten it all wrong. Life wasn't a box of chocolates. It was a box of ex-lax, and I felt like I'd consumed the entire thing.

Jana Deleon

#16. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

Laini Taylor

#17. About three women a day are murdered by spouses or ex-spouses in this country.

Rebecca Solnit

#18. Naturally, every boyfriend comes with an ex-girlfriend, every business comes with competitors, but it is entirely up to you to decide how much time you spend thinking about them.

Sophia Amoruso

#19. I was wrong.
Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.

Larry Gent

#20. The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend? William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish

Tate Hallaway

#21. I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that is the reason I am severing all my relations with him.77

Orlando Figes

#22. So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.

Malcolm X

#23. My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

Rodney Dangerfield

#24. I'm in love with your ex-wife," ... "I've loved her since high school, man. She means everything to me. You gotta drag her down, that'll suck, but I'll pick her back up. You gotta rip her apart, I'll fuckin' hate watchin' it, but I'll put her back together.

Kristen Ashley

#25. Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity ... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#26. You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Lee Trevino

#27. Going back to your ex is like taking back your spit from the ground.

M.F. Moonzajer

#28. You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.

Dennis Quaid

#29. She started coming to the meetings. We talked, mostly about you, and it sorta..."
"Just happened," Tori finished, staring at the floor.

"Unh-uh." Cara shook her head, trying to clear it like an Etch a Sketch. "A zit just happens. My best friend going after my ex doesn't just happen.

Melissa Landers

#30. I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know.

Anthony Jeselnik

#31. There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

E. T. Whittaker

#32. It was only two months after Tunde, her ex-love interest, suddenly moved to North Carolina, against her wishes, when she met Amiel at a gas station in Lansing.

Jessica N. Watkins

#33. He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.

David Levithan

#34. Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

James Ellroy

#35. When did the government become our psycho ex-girlfriend

Jay Leno

#36. Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

Charles B. Rangel

#37. Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

Sloane Crosley

#38. If you don't think a mental patient has the right to bring a sawed-off shotgun to the church where his ex-girlfriend is getting married, you're part of the problem.

David Sedaris

#39. Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

#40. I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude ... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.

David Rees

#41. Darlin', you can't tell me your ex wasn't adventurous and not expect me to see it as a challenge.

Leah Braemel

#42. Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"
Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."
"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

Jill Shalvis

#43. Every time I see my cat licking its asshole I think about my ex wife. But that's how nostalgia works, right? We only remember the best of the available memories.

Jarod Kintz

#44. In America the scale of medical embezzlement is extraordinary. According to Donald Berwick, the ex-boss of Medicare and Medicaid (the public health schemes for the old and poor), America lost between $82 billion and $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse.

Anonymous

#45. He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

John Green

#46. I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to motherfucker.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#47. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

Douglas Wilson

#48. Medic, geek, badass ex-military guy? Is there anything you can't do?

Maya Banks

#49. Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

Mariella Frostrup

#50. Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you."
"Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?

Richelle Mead

#51. I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

Brittany Murphy

#52. He's half my ex-husband's age, but twice as energetic when we have sex. And twice as grateful afterwards.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#53. *jerk'jrk 1 an ex-wife or ex-husband who continually annoys you with stupid, irrational, and immature behavior 2 one whose values differ so dramatically from yours that you wonder how you will ever make it through your child's lifetime

Julie A., M.A. Ross

#54. I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Dave Pelzer

#55. It has taken me a long time to work out the function of ex-boyfriends, at least for me: how they can help you work out what you want from life and from a partner by showing you what you don't. If a man is your ex, it's better all round if he was not Mr. Right.

Nicola Monaghan

#56. In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

Emraan Hashmi

#57. Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Lilia Shevtsova

#58. In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

Tom Franklin

#59. I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

Daniel Handler

#60. It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Dirk Benedict

#61. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Wendell Berry

#62. I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

Ron Hall

#63. I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don't bear his autograph.

Natalya Vorobyova

#64. The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Ulysses S. Grant

#65. I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.

Margaret Brown

#66. Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

Rob Thurman

#67. I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

David Foster

#68. Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.

Kevin Kilbane

#69. Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

Bob Hope

#70. They have been taught to labor," the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1891. "They have been taught Christian civilization, and to speak the noble English language instead of some African gibberish. The account is square with the ex-slaves.

Anonymous

#71. All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.

Marybeth Niederkorn

#72. I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

Ziad Doueiri

#73. [S]ex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission.

Erich Fromm

#74. If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

Neil S. Plakcy

#75. The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Jim Crace

#76. It is written: "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live" (Ex. 22:18); and: "In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land" (Ps. 100:8) ...

Thomas Aquinas

#77. ..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.

Jenny Mollen

#78. KACIE: ....she'd always had a thing for hot ex-jock soldiers like Dean.

Mina Carter

#79. Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

Dennis Prager

#80. Every time you think about the ex, every time the loneliness rears up in you like a seething, burning continent, you tie on your shoes and hit the paths and that helps; it really does.

Junot Diaz

#81. Melanchthon concludes that "no sane person can approve this Pharisaical and pagan opinion about ex opere operato." (Ap.XXIV.13)

Jordan B Cooper

#82. Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

Connie Sellecca

#83. One time, my ex-boyfriend and I were in Paris, and we went to this really fancy dinner. We weren't full after, so we walked from the schmoozy restaurant to McDonald's, and we finished our date at McDonald's. It was awesome.

Gigi Hadid

#84. The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Hannah Simone

#85. I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

Thomas Piketty

#86. I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.

Dandi Daley Mackall

#87. My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

Reese Witherspoon

#88. 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

#89. I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

Adam DeVine

#90. I love my wife. My ex-wife. Nothing will ever change that." "Okay." "I can't love anyone else.

C.D. Reiss

#91. There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).

Nakia R. Laushaul

#92. telling the jokes - was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?

Donald E. Westlake

#93. I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

#94. I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.

Mitch Hedberg

#95. I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

Dana Gould

#96. Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

Patrick Rothfuss

#97. I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Emo Philips

#98. [On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly LeBrock

#99. But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.

Daria Snadowsky

#100. There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

Margaret Millar