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

If you can make a girl laugh – you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe

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

I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
Marilyn Monroe

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

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

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

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn Monroe

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn Monroe

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.
Marilyn Monroe

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn Monroe

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?
Marilyn Monroe

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn Monroe

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

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

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.
Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.
Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
Andy Warhol

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.
Andy Warhol

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

Drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to be to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women will actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.
Andy Warhol

I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say “figment.”
Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol

I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
Andy Warhol

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.
Andy Warhol

It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Andy Warhol

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Andy Warhol

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Carrie Snow

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.
Anonymous

SLEEP – Those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allen Poe

The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not; To want for one who comes not; To try to please and please not.
Egyptian Proverb

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book
Irish Proverb

Sleeping alone, except under doctor’s orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC, 1962

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night… without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
Joan Klempner

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Anonymous

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
Author Unknown

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
Author Unknown

People who snore always fall asleep first.
Author Unknown

Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C.S. Lewis

We read to know that we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
C.S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis

You can make anything by writing.
C.S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. Lewis

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
C.S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C.S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Reuben Blades

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Society is composed of two great classes – those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural address, 20 January 1953

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
Malcolm Potts, MD

There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
Author Unknown

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughn

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan, “Distress”

People have become as processed as food.
Astrid Alauda

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
Ellen Frankfort

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
John W. Gardner

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, “It is finished. We made it and it works.”
William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 8 June 1952

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he’s happy, the other half he’s right.
Robert Brault

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
Robert Frost

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern