Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.

Marilyn Monroe

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• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Justice
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Father
  • Age
  • Religion

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Same
  • Leader
  • Will

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Moral

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Before

• Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Women
  • Quality

• When I was younger, we lived in a horse community.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Community
  • Horse

• It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Character
  • Gay

• Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Marriage
  • Dark Side
  • Honeymoon