Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Muhammad Yunus

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

Muhammad Ali

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Mae West

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Mae West

When in doubt take a bath

Madonna Ciccone

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

Madonna Ciccone

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Liza Minnelli

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Michael Dell

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Mia Hamm

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

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?

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Marilyn Monroe

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Marilyn Monroe

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.