Marilyn Monroe Quotes

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.