Marilyn Monroe Quotes

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Marilyn Monroe

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• I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Vote
  • Mouse
  • Mickey Mouse

• 'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Popularity
  • Stardom

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Movies

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

  

  Derek Sivers
  • Energy

• I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • School
  • Energy

• Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

  

  John Allison

• When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Opinion
  • Phenomenon
  • Pops

• When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Life
  • History
  • Science

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• ... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Phenomenon
  • Credence
  • Dictum

• Horse racing is waning in popularity.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Horse
  • Racing
  • Popularity

• Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Records
  • Phenomenon
  • Cracked Rear View

• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  

  Charles James
  • Great
  • Popular
  • Force

• Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Sex
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

  

  James Keller
  • Time
  • Phenomenon
  • Athletic

• I think that I have a pretty varied taste in music I think. And it is primarily rock music big umbrella that I am, I am not into hip-hop. But, I do like both.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Singing
  • Sweet
  • Soothing

• Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

  

  George Gilder
  • Desire
  • inspirational
  • Wealth

• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Phenomenon
  • Popularity
  • Masculine