Marilyn Monroe Quotes

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

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• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Shape
  • Structure

• I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Serious

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Powerful

• Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

  

  Jan Vogler
  • World

• It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.

  

  Emma McLaughlin
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Library

• I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Business
  • Marketing

• If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Good
  • Different

• For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

  

  Andy Lau
  • Chinese

• Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

  

  Plutarch

• We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Shape

• It isn't hard to stay in shape.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Shape
  • Stay

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Painting
  • Looks

• Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Artist
  • Shape
  • Poem

• I had a little friend, a peasant boy, who was younger than me. I was about ten. One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. ‘“What are you doing?” I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. ‘“What shape is water?” ‘“Water doesn’t have any shape!” I said, laughing. “It takes the shape you give it at”

  

  Andrea Camilleri
  • Water
  • Boy
  • Shape

• Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • Opinion
  • Belief
  • Judging

• You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • Start
  • Speech

• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Elephant

• The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Shape
  • Blond
  • Working Men