Quotes on their wives?

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Since we had a thread with quotes on their friendship, let's try one on their wives. I don't know if there are any quotes about the other wives(?) - so far I've only seen quotes on Ali.

Let me start with these, Bono talks about his better half:

"There is a sense of mystery about her that even I can't crack and I think she likes it that way."

"Still, she is a very strong person and doesn't take any shit from me."

"One of the most beautiful women I've ever seen just walked in, and brought me a glass of wine - and she just happens to be my wife."
 
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My 2 favorite Bono quotes:

" I fell in love with Ali the first time I saw her and the last time. "

" She is the light of my life. She is more perfect the longer we are together. I am completely in love with her. "

What's more remarkable is that these are both relatively recent-pretty great for a couple that's been together close to 30 years.:heart:
 
Somewhat related.

:edge:

Back by the pool with the Edge, we admire the blissful view and the bizarre fact that he and Bono have two houses side by side. The Edge also has a house in Malibu, because his wife, Morleigh, is native to LA. "And the kids love it because their cousins are there." He thinks one day he may buy a boat. Ultimately, though, "Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. I don't have a big car collection. I don't have anything that I'd miss if it got stolen. I bought this house because it was about timing. I was going through a low point because I was just separating from my first wife, Aislinn, and things were tough and this was laying down new beginnings of another sort."

He met Morleigh when they were doing the Zoo TV tour in 1992. She's a dancer and came to help with the choreography. It was a slow burn. "We had known each other but were not very close for a while. Then a little spark happened." Last night in our drunken conversation, Bono had said that you know if you really love somebody if you can be yourself with them. Edge agrees: "Yes, I can be myself." From the slow, precise way he says that, you know it wasn't always the case. In relationships, do you prefer to be the person that is most loved or most loving? "I started out being the one who was most loving. Now, hopefully, it's more 50-50. There's a certain ego in that there's a control in being the one who's the most loving. To surrender and say 'I am going to be loved' requires a certain humility. The paradox is, it's generous to be loved." All of U2 love a bit of a paradox.
 
Edgette said:
Somewhat related.

:edge:



." Last night in our drunken conversation, Bono had said that you know if you really love somebody if you can be yourself with them. Edge agrees: "Yes, I can be myself." From the slow, precise way he says that, you know it wasn't always the case. In relationships, do you prefer to be the person that is most loved or most loving? "I started out being the one who was most loving. Now, hopefully, it's more 50-50. There's a certain ego in that there's a control in being the one who's the most loving. To surrender and say 'I am going to be loved' requires a certain humility. The paradox is, it's generous to be loved." All of U2 love a bit of a paradox.
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That is so beautiful....:sad: and so very true!!!:applaud:
 
Bono: "I'd love to do a single with Ali. It would be great to go into a studio with someone who doesn't know anything about music but has got so much natural spirit and just try to see if we can capture that on record!"
Neil: "How does Ali feel about that?"
Bono: "Oh, she doesn't know!", he laughed. "She won't even sing in front of me. I'd have to sneak in and record her in the bath".

" And I remember this girl who was so beautiful and so completely unaware of it. I mean, she used to wear Wellington boots and gabardine, and there was just no vanity. And I thought that this was just the most attractive person I'd ever seen, a completely unself-conscious beauty." - Bono

"See, the thing about us is that we like each other. It's almost the biggest thing you can say." - Bono
 
Not from Bono, but still about Ali:

"I couldn't emphasize enough how un-rockstar Ali is. She's a very private person and she often jokes about how she lost all of her privacy when she was introduced to me. Because she had to sacrifice what she had of it. Until that time she was able to go into supermarkets and nobody knew who she was. She still goes into supermarkets, that hasn't changed, but the recognition factor has changed. I just made the appeal to her that through her identifying with this cause, that it would make a huge difference, that it would literally save lives. And that we could never ever quantify in financial terms the benefit of having Ali as a patron." - Adi Roche on Ali's involvement with the Chernobyl Childrens Project

"The best thing about Bono is Ali. She is calm and rational and able to see beyond individuals to policies." - Eamon Dunphy

"He could often be found hanging out in our common room because [Bono] was engaged in a vigorous,amorous pursuit of Alison Stewart, one of the most beautiful and universally admired girls in our year. Alison had thick, black hair, smooth, olive skin, dark, warm eyes and deliciously curled lips. Being a hormonal charged 15 year old boy, I could not help but notice these things. She was also smart, kind, good-humoured, strong-willed and, frankly, way out of my league. Actually, at that stage, you felt you might have half a chance. Alison had a sort of aura of impermiability about her. I never really felt she belonged in the same world as an ungainly youth like me. On principle, I was against older boys going out with girls in our class, since their seniority and bullish air of experience seemed to grant them unfair advantage, but Alison and Paul seemed to fit. He wooed her over the course of a long year, until, when you saw them nestle intimately among the stark arrangement of chairs and lockers in the common room, it became apparent they were an item." - Neil McCormick
 
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"But in the end the people who really got me here tonight and who I must thank for everything I have, are Ali, Ann, Morleigh, Suzie, Larry, Edge and Bono."--Adam in his thank you speech into the R&R Hall of Fame.
 
:up: I liked it when Adaim said that.

Here's another one, Bono was asked (I think around the time of Zoo TV) which person he admires the most:

"Ali. She is so sane yet she chooses to live with me."
 
thrillme said:
"But in the end the people who really got me here tonight and who I must thank for everything I have, are Ali, Ann, Morleigh, Suzie, Larry, Edge and Bono."--Adam in his thank you speech into the R&R Hall of Fame.
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What a beautiful thank you. :heart:
 
thrillme said:
"But in the end the people who really got me here tonight and who I must thank for everything I have, are Ali, Ann, Morleigh, Suzie, Larry, Edge and Bono."--Adam in his thank you speech into the R&R Hall of Fame.
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I love the way Adam says "Ali".....It's more how he says his A's..as in Dallas..it's just so cute...;)
 
thrillme said:
"But in the end the people who really got me here tonight and who I must thank for everything I have, are Ali, Ann, Morleigh, Suzie, Larry, Edge and Bono."--Adam in his thank you speech into the R&R Hall of Fame.
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I remember noticing that too! I found it to be an incredibly indication of the type of man Adam is, the way he thanked the women first. It really impressed me.

I :heart: this thread bytheway.....keep them coming please!
 
ali-specific but not so much lovey-dovey lol:

"If I'm drinking too much then I know when to stop - perhaps if I hadn't found somebody as special as Ali, or if I didn't have the friends or the faith I have, then maybe I'd be there with Michael Hutchence."
-- Bono, 2001


"He's the perfect rock and roll baby. He sleeps blissfully all day and roars all night. Ali is a saint; I try to do my bit, but I don't have the right breasts." Bono, about Elijah, third child


BP: Do you believe in flying saucers?
BONO: In my kitchen they'e an everyday thing.
BP: Have you ever seen one?
BONO: She's a very good shot.


"Ali, my missus says "We are not 50,000 people...Shut up!"
 
Ehrm, I believe he had his concert head going, so he was kinda wound up and loud...looking for an audience of 50,000, but he was home -- where there weren't 50 thousand people! Something like that! :wink:
 
From "U2 At the End of the World;" Ali's home getting ready to go to Chernobyl and Bono's at the studio:

"Ali doesn't need me," Bono says. "She's packing, she's quite happy. She's completely self-sufficient. It's very disheartening."

:sad:

Poor baby! :wink:
 
Edgette said:
Somewhat related.

:edge:

Back by the pool with the Edge, we admire the blissful view and the bizarre fact that he and Bono have two houses side by side. The Edge also has a house in Malibu, because his wife, Morleigh, is native to LA. "And the kids love it because their cousins are there." He thinks one day he may buy a boat. Ultimately, though, "Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. I don't have a big car collection. I don't have anything that I'd miss if it got stolen. I bought this house because it was about timing. I was going through a low point because I was just separating from my first wife, Aislinn, and things were tough and this was laying down new beginnings of another sort."

He met Morleigh when they were doing the Zoo TV tour in 1992. She's a dancer and came to help with the choreography. It was a slow burn. "We had known each other but were not very close for a while. Then a little spark happened." Last night in our drunken conversation, Bono had said that you know if you really love somebody if you can be yourself with them. Edge agrees: "Yes, I can be myself." From the slow, precise way he says that, you know it wasn't always the case. In relationships, do you prefer to be the person that is most loved or most loving? "I started out being the one who was most loving. Now, hopefully, it's more 50-50. There's a certain ego in that there's a control in being the one who's the most loving. To surrender and say 'I am going to be loved' requires a certain humility. The paradox is, it's generous to be loved." All of U2 love a bit of a paradox.
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i found this excerpt[sp?] to be extremely insighful.

Also, could somone provide the link to the original interview or was it copied and pasted directly into PLEBA? Either way......
 
happy for so long and still counting. been through so much together and still madly in love with each other... i thought my parents were the only ones like that till i heard of bono and ali's marriage :lol:
 
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