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.

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.

Christian Louboutin

It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.

Germaine Greer

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

Havelock Ellis

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Frances Farmer

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Mitch Albom

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

Mitch Albom

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.