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
Related She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, an... MARISSA MEYER I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, w... A.J. STYLES To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth... CORA PEARL Because from the day I met her I'd known I wanted to be part of any world she belonged to. Did that ... RANSOM RIGGS Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend. JULE STYNE After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein... J.D. BREWER I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I n... MAXIMILLIAN DEGENEREZ To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew... C. JOYBELL C. I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way you did. I never really belonged anywhere." LEIGH BARDUGO Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me... BILLY WILDER I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. ETHEL WATERS I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pict... EMMA WATSON When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor... SALLY KIRKLAND Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Before we belonged to anyone else, we were each other's. ELIZABETH NOBLE Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt complete... KENNETH BRANAGH Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to ciga... WILLIAM GIBSON The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I ... ATO ESSANDOH I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens. KATHY IRELAND Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I ... FRANK MCCOURT I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep go... SYLVESTER STALLONE I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the ... LEIGH BARDUGO To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree. The old man and the b... GAIL GILLESPIE-FOX I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very... CARINE ROITFELD I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style ... BEHATI PRINSLOO I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe. ANNA NICOLE SMITH Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make? TERRY JOHNSON Give a girl the right shoes and she'll conquer the world. ANONYMOUS Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered. CLARA BOW The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew a... IDA TARBELL I don't think anyone really objected to the statement, but I don't think they thought it really belo... GINGER DAVIS I never belonged anywhere until I met you. ANN AGUIRRE I was ready to go. That's where I felt I belonged. JEFF MCCAFFREY If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne... STEPHEN HAWKING Those guys made spectacular catches in the Super Bowl. I wanted to be compared to those guys. I neve... HINES WARD When I first saw her as a freshman that day, I knew she belonged. It was never a question with her. ... DAVE KLINGEL I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the ... JOHN IRVING I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,... EDMUND WHITE Apparently a new family had moved into town and found two giant penguins hanging in the garage. Ever... BOB MCDERMOTT The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another p... MARTHA BECK I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her. KARLA CAMPOS I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. VALENTINO GARAVANI I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing someth... LANA DEL REY I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation. WILLIAM ODOM I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else... I don't even know how to explain it. I fe... M. MOLLY BACKES Do you not understand?” he whispered. “I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child.... KRISTEN CALLIHAN I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged w... CASSANDRA CLARE That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I f... DOMINIC MONAGHAN The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't fe... GAYLE FORMAN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San ... HEATHER DEMETRIOS i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to ... ALBERT EINSTEIN I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever w... FERNANDO PESSOA
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MARILYN MONROE I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times ha... MARILYN MONROE Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love,
listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves
before she's left. MARILYN MONROE Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world. MARILYN MONROE I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I hav... MARILYN MONROE It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. MARILYN MONROE I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for ... MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca... MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i... MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. MARILYN MONROE I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and litt... MARILYN MONROE The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift). MARILYN MONROE She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I... MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. MARILYN MONROE I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much ali... MARILYN MONROE