Friday, August 14, 2009

Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"

"Who said nights were for sleep?"

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

"If your gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ... "

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

"Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine."

"Women who seek to be equal with mean lack ambition"

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. "

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

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

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

Marilyn Monroe

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

On dreams

"Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. "

Ray Charles

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit."

Wilma Rudolph

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."

Swami Vivekananda

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin."

Benjamin Elijah Mays

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."

Carl Sandburg

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

Paulo Coelho

"In my dreams, I never have an age."

Madeleine L'Engle

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

Harriet Tubman

"It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."

Million Dollar Baby

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Dr. Seuss

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. "

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."


Dr. Seuss

A.A. Milne

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."

"...Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one! - Tigger"

"Sometimes it’s the smallish things that take up the most room in our hearts."

AA Milne

Kay Knudsen

"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

Kay Knudsen

John Green

"You can love someone so much," he thought. "But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

John Green

Monday, August 10, 2009

Calvin and Hobbes

"God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die."

"You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."

"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."

"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?

Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."

Calvin: Academia, here I come!"

"Every time I've built character, I've regretted it."

"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point."

Bill Watterson

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Maya Angelou

"Success is loving life and daring to live it."

Maya Angelou

Martina Navratilova

"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."

Martina Navratilova