Marilyn Quotes

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point. ~ Marilyn Manson

I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone who is willing to stick through all of these things with me, because we love each other more than we love ourselves. ~ Marilyn Grey

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess. ~ Philippe Halsman

Love is a context, not a behavior. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

There was something special about a carnival at night. Bright lights pierced the darkness; the tinkling music of the merry-go-round provided the perfect background for the shrill calls of the carnival workers; the giggles of the people aiming fake rifles at fake ducks were full of contagious fun; the distant shrieks coming from the roller coaster and the top of the Ferris wheel filled the air; and a warm breeze carried the tantalizing aromas of cotton candy and hot buttered popcorn. ~ Marilyn Kaye

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight. ~ Gwen Stefani

Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd. ~ Marilyn Monroe

The wisdom of a human...is boundless. ~ Marilyn Z. Wilkes

everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. ~ Marilyn Manson

Never underestimate the power of helplessness! ~ Marilyn French

Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact, despite religious commands to the contrary, aggressiveness has never really been condemned. It's been exalted, from the Bible through Homer and Virgil right down to Humbert Hemingway. Have you ever heard of a John Wayne movie being censored? did you ever see them take war books off the bookstands? They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginning of written rules, and even before, if we can believe myth. I think that's because it's in sex that men feel most vulnerable. In war they can hype themselves up, or they have a weapon. Sex means being literally naked and exposing your feelings. And that's more terrifying to most men than the risk of dying while fighting a bear or a soldier. Look at the rules! You can have sex if you're married, and you have to marry a person of the opposite gender, the same color and religion, an age close to your own, of the right social and economic background, even the right height, for God's sake, or else everybody gets up in arms, they disinherit you or threa ~ Marilyn French

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important - you know ~ Marilyn Monroe

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another. ~ Marilyn French

But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. ~ Marilyn Manson

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it. ~ Marilyn Manson

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. ~ Marilyn French

Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong. ~ Marilyn J. Sorensen

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. ~ Marilyn Monroe

If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively. ~ Marilyn Jager Adams

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

When a customer is upset, remember that you're dealing with a person, not a problem. ~ Marilyn Suttle

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. ~ Marilyn Monroe

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson. ~ Daisy Berkowitz

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. ~ Oscar Levant

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state. ~ Marilyn Manson

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together ~ Marilyn Monroe

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy. ~ Marilyn Monroe

but was this funny? was this funny? was this funny? why was this funny? why was Sugar Kane funny? why were men dressed as women funny? why were men made up as women funny? why were men staggering in high heels funny? why was Sugar Kane funny, was Sugar Kane the supreme female impersonator? was this funny? why was this funny? why is female funny? why were people going to laugh at Sugar Kane & fall in love with Sugar Kane? why, another time? why would Sugar Kane Kovalchick girl ukulelist be such a box office success in America? why dazzling-blond girl ukulelist alcoholic Sugar Kane Kovalchick a success? why Some Like It Hot a masterpiece? why Monroe's masterpiece? why Monroe's most commercial movie? why did they love her? why when her life was in shreds like clawed silk? why when her life was in pieces like smashed glass? why when her insides had bled out? why when her insides had been scooped out? why when she carried poison in her womb? why when her head was ringing with pain? her mouth stinging with red ants? why when everybody on the set of the film hated her? resented her? feared her? why when she was drowning before their eyes? I wanna be loved by you boop boopie do! why was Sugar Kane Kovalchick of Sweet Sue's Society Syncopaters so seductive? I wanna be kissed by nobody else but you I wanna! I wanna! I wanna be loved by you alone but why? why was Marilyn so funny? why did the world adore Marilyn? who despised herself? was that why? why did the world love Marilyn? wh ~ Joyce Carol Oates

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be. ~ Marilyn Fullen-Collins

I hated that I always felt sorry for people who hurt me. Sometimes I wished I were one of those people who held grudges for ten months and stopped talking to people who hurt me. ~ Marilyn Grey

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake. ~ Marilyn Manson

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that. ~ Liza Minnelli

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression ... ~ Marilyn Frye

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'
Clawing at the roof of her coffin. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself. ~ Marilyn Manson

One advantage to being a despised species is that you have freedom, freedom to be any crazy thing you want. If you listen to a group of housewives talk, you'll hear a lot of nonsense, some of it really crazy. This comes, I think, from being alone so much, and pursuing your own odd train of thought without impediment, which some call discipline. The result is craziness, but also brilliance. Ordinary women come out with the damnedest truth. You ignore them at your own risk. And they are permitted to go on making wild statements without being put in one kind of jail or another (some of them, anyway) because everyone knows they're crazy and powerless too. If a woman is religious or earthy, passive or wildly assertive, loving or hating, she doesn't get much more flak than if she isn't: her choices lie between being castigated as a ball and chain or as a whore. ~ Marilyn French

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. ~ Marilyn Monroe

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it! ~ Marilyn Monroe

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that. ~ Marilyn Manson

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ~ Marilyn Hacker

Jesus came for the least, the lost, and the last. ~ Marilyn Hickey

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things. ~ Marilyn Manson

S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter. ~ Marilyn French

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe. ~ William Eggleston

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work. ~ Marilyn C. Nelson

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself. ~ Marilyn Monroe

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no. ~ Richard Avedon

I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle. ~ Marilyn Nelson

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself. ~ Marilyn French

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales. ~ Celeste Ng

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes ~ Marilyn Monroe

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Marilyn Monroe

For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn't exist any more. ~ Marilyn Nelson

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant. ~ Marilyn Manson

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live. ~ Marilyn Manson

Dear Juliet. I could relate to her pain. Black misery painted on a blood red heart. Death would be more bearable than life without Romeo. ~ Marilyn Grey

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be. ~ Marilyn Vos Savant

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? ~ Marilyn Manson

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!' ~ Marilyn Monroe

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! ~ Marilyn Monroe

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird! ~ Karen Gillan

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. ~ Marilyn French

It's her way of honoring Marilyn, while trying to commune with her spirit, and I can never decide if it's morbid,creepy,pathetic,or all three. ~ Alyson Noel

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night ~ Marilyn Monroe

I have too much imagination to be a housewife ~ Marilyn Monroe

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. ~ Marilyn Jager Adams

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind. ~ Marilyn Manson

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ~ Marilyn French

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had. ~ Marilyn French

We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly. ~ Tony Curtis

I'm just here for the narcotics. ~ Marilyn Manson

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me. ~ Marilyn Manson

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. ~ Marilyn Wann

You must feel attractive to be attractive. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons ~ Marilyn Manson

People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.) ~ Marilyn Manson

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. ~ Marilyn Monroe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. ~ Marilyn Monroe

She was my person. My one person.We were growing into each other. Changing. Morphing into one soul. And I loved every second of it. ~ Marilyn Grey

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level. ~ Marilyn Yalom