Marilyn Monroe Quotes

During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.