Marilyn Monroe Quotes

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Rest

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • House
  • Morning

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hand

• I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Mother
  • House
  • Child

• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Better
  • Look
  • Customers

• I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Down

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Positive
  • Atmosphere
  • Which

• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• I have friends who died being successful bohemians. Today, I see people my age who are gifted but who insisted on staying in this group, and it's beaten them so bad. They have to spend so much time on ego maintenance, they can't get any work done. They'd be very happy to sell out, but there are no buyers, and that hurts.

  

  Aram Saroyan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Age
  • Christ
  • Praying

• A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Song
  • Inspired

• If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Age
  • Man
  • Interesting