Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Marilyn Monroe

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Marilyn Monroe

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Marilyn Monroe

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Marilyn Monroe

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Nikki Giovanni

Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them.In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.

Nikki Giovanni

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Nikki Giovanni

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

Nikki Giovanni

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Nikki Giovanni

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

Nicole Krauss

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.

Nicole Krauss

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Nicole Krauss

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

Nicole Krauss

Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you

Nicole Krauss

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

Nickolas Ashford

It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.

Nick Morgan

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

Nick Hornby

The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.

Mary Martin

When you love others you aren't nervous.

Marvin Gaye

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).

Marvin J. Ashton

A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.

Marvin J. Ashton

Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

Marvin J. Ashton

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Mark Twain

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

Marian Keyes

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Nicholas Sparks

As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

Nicholas Sparks

I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

Nicholas Sparks

The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?