Marilyn Monroe Quotes

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.