
“People see me and think I have lots of girlfriends, do I look like I have lots of girlfriends?”
A collection of quotes on the topic of girlfriend, likeness, herring, want.
“People see me and think I have lots of girlfriends, do I look like I have lots of girlfriends?”
"Bad Guy"
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)
"Funny Little World" (2009).
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14
Vibe "Justin Bieber on Photo Shoots, Puberty, 2Pac & Drake" http://www.vibe.com/article/justin-bieber-photo-shoots-puberty-2pac-drake, 22 July 2010
I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing
“If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
Oui interview (1979)
On his leaving the music industry after his hits of the 80s, as quoted in Metro (3 September 2004) http://www.stockaitkenwaterman.com/artists/astl07.htm
Deriding the Chinese government's prohibition on the Rolling Stones playing four songs from their catalog. " Toned-down Rolling Stones rock China https://web.archive.org/web/20060410114701/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/08/stones.concert.ap/index.html", CNN (April 8, 2006).
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Inceldom
“I mean, girlfriends are trouble at this age.”
MTV News "Justin Bieber Says 'Girlfriends Are Trouble'" http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1647976/justin-bieber-girlfriends-trouble.jhtml, 16 September, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-s-indelible-image-3886925.php#page-2
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Variant: After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
Source: Where Rainbows End
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.”
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
Source: Sex and the City
“You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Source: Alice in Zombieland
“Here's to our wives and girlfriends… may they never meet!”
citation needed
Variation on an old Royal Navy wardroom toast: "Wives and Sweethearts! May they never meet!"[citation needed]
“One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.”
Source: Daylighters
“Aren't you going to introduce your little girlfriend to your mother?”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“Sokka: "My first girlfriend turned into the moon."
Zuko: "That's tough buddy.”
Quoted in mirror.co.uk interview (22 October 2005)
2000s
Shortage Of Brain Tissue Hinders Autism Research
Wall and Piece (2005)
“Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.”
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 1 (p. 8)
“(…) first concentrate on the love for the girlfriend and when you are satisfied, then come to God.”
The Teachings of Babaji. (1983, 1984, 1988). Haidakhan, U.P.: Haidakhandi Samaj.
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 14 September 1981.
“If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.”
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Archenemy
As quoted in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm (2005).
Reported in The New Yorker as: “At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.” http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627ta_talk_remnick
On himself
“I always wanted to have the ball for myself; she was my girlfriend.”
Attributed in The Wit and Wisdom of Alfredo Di Stéfano Kindle Location 194, this is actually a quote of José Manuel Moreno, as quoted in "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008) http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jun/10/distefano.
Misattributed
Interview on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/16/sitroom.03.html (16 March 2007)
2000s
On Wikipedia
Canadian pundit, Wikipedia founder in messy breakup http://web.archive.org/web/20080304021035/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/03/02/marsden-breakup.html
Interview with British Newspaper The Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk:
Source: In the Drift (1985), Chapter 5, “Marrow Death” (pp. 180-181)
“I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.”
Interview Magazine (December 15, 2010)
“My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron…and a lot like Patrick Ewing.”
Live at the Purple Onion (2007)
Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
As quoted in "Fischer: A Ferocious Teddy Bear" http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-03/entertainment/ca-1426_1_teddy-bear
“My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.”
One-liners
“It must be hard just to be someone's girlfriend.”
Alice in Ioan land - icWales http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2003/09/05/alice-in-ioan-land-91466-13371356/ By Karen Price, 5 September 2003.
citation needed
Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1