Norma Jean Quotes

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier. ~ Kris Courtney

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting. ~ Jean Webster

Something I didn't know any more: a sort of joy. The ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. ~ Jean Baudrillard

The bottom of the sea was aflame with a vast bloody glow that spread beneath the schooner; the light slid under the keel and illuminated the sails and rigging from below. It was as though we were on a boat in the Drury Lane Theatre, lighted by an invisible row of flares.

'Phosphorescence?' I ventured.

'Look,' whispered Jellewyn.

The water had become as transparent as glass. At an enormous depth, we saw great dark masses with unreal shapes: there were manors with immense towers, gigantic domes, horribly straight streets lined with frenzied houses. We appeared to be flying over a furiously busy city at an incredible height.

'There seems to be movement,' I said.

'Yes.'

We could see a swarming crowd of amorphous beings engaged in some sort of feverish and infernal activity.

'Get back!' Jellewyn shouted, pulling me violently by the belt.

One of those beings was rising toward us with astounding speed. In less than a second its immense bulk had hidden the undersea city from us; it was as though a flood of ink had instantaneously spread around us.

The keel received a tremendous blow. In the crimson light, we saw three enormous tentacles, three times as high as the mainmast, hideously writhing in the air. A formidable face composed of black shadows and two eyes of liquid amber rose above the port side of the ship and gave us a terrifying look. ~ Jean Ray

Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown]. ~ Jean Grae

Man is condemned to be free; ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I think it's because when I look at you, I see us. and we're beautiful together. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Commitment is an act, not a word ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits. ~ Jean Patou

An individual chooses and makes himself. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We love without reason, and without reason we hate. ~ Jean-Francois Regnard

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss. ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked
which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it. ~ Jean Genet

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. ~ Billie Jean King

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. ~ Jean-Baptiste Say

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others
first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother. ~ Jean Baker Miller

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time. ~ Jean Houston

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward. ~ Jean Vanier

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. ~ Jean Racine

It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them). ~ Jean Baudrillard

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. ~ Jean Cocteau

One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite. ~ Jean-Claude Juncker

You're probably going to lose your V that night anyway, so I'll be the last thing you'll be thinking about."
"I wasn't planning on having sex on prom night!" I hiss. My eyes dart over at Lucas, who is looking at me, bug-eyed.
"Lara Jean…you and Kavinsky haven't had sex yet?"
I look to make sure no one's in the hallway listening. "No, but please don't tell anybody. Not that I'm ashamed of it or anything. I just don't want everyone knowing my business."
"I get it, obviously, but wow," he says, still sounding shocked. "That's…wow."
"Why is it so wow?" I ask him, and I can feel my cheeks warming.
"He's so…hot."
I laugh. "That's true. ~ Jenny Han

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it! ~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have. ~ Billie Jean King

The flesh is the pure contingency of presence. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

His dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations. ~ Jean Plaidy

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. ~ Jean Cocteau

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits. ~ Jean Racine

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words ~ Carole Seymour-Jones