Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Marilyn Monroe

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Marilyn Monroe

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Marilyn Monroe

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Marilyn Monroe

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Marilyn Monroe

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

Marilyn Monroe

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Marilyn Monroe

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Marilyn Monroe

I read poetry to save time.

Marilyn Monroe

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Marilyn Monroe

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Marilyn Monroe

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Marilyn Monroe

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

Marilyn Monroe

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Marilyn Monroe

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Nikki Giovanni

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Matt Damon

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

John Green

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

Paul Newman

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Martha Beck

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Michel de Montaigne

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Marianne Williamson

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Mario Cuomo

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Mario Cuomo

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Mario Cuomo

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Frank O'Hara

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Christopher Hitchens

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.