~SHAYNA~'s quotes

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

tags: love
378 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,834 people liked it

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

tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
390 people liked it

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

tags: girls, love
993 people liked it

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

tags: humor, philosophy
499 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,655 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,866 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,895 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,498 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,130 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
4,164 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,644 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,707 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,190 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,751 people liked it

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
— Frank Zappa (Real Frank Zappa Book)

tags: music
143 people liked it

"If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me."
— Gerard Way

tags: music
171 people liked it

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: music, sinister
148 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,282 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,335 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
2,261 people liked it

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

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

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"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."
— Marilyn Monroe

678 people liked it

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

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"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

539 people liked it

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

560 people liked it

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love, world
676 people liked it

"Who said nights were for sleep?"
— Marilyn Monroe

443 people liked it

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

493 people liked it

"I just want to be wonderful."
— Marilyn Monroe

298 people liked it

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

353 people liked it

"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."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: hollywood, kiss, soul
222 people liked it

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: animals, dogs
266 people liked it

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn, monroe
287 people liked it

"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."
— Marilyn Monroe

364 people liked it

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

288 people liked it

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

276 people liked it

"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."
— Marilyn Monroe

247 people liked it

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

212 people liked it

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

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"I restore myself when I'm alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

208 people liked it

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

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"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: appearance, jokes, marilyn-monroe
207 people liked 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."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: ambition, dreams
154 people liked it

"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: art, beauty, glamour, sexuality
177 people liked it