Carmen > Carmen's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 36

« previous 1 2 next »

like

#1

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

19584 likes

like

#2

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35270 likes

like

#3

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74581 likes

like

#4

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

15904 likes

like

#5

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26987 likes

like

#6

“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: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165653 likes

like

#7

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45236 likes

like

#8

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

13741 likes

like

#9

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

31313 likes

like

#10

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48251 likes

like

#11

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

22827 likes

like

#12

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

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27935 likes

like

#13

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13400 likes

like

#14

“I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn-monroe

2404 likes

like

#15

“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

1649 likes

like

#16

“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: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs

5909 likes

like

#17

“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”
― Marilyn Monroe

1202 likes

like

#18

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, girl, makeup, world

6213 likes

like

#19

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: animals, dogs

3663 likes

like

#20

“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

1606 likes

like

#21

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”
― Marilyn Monroe

1492 likes

like

#22

“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

9602 likes

like

#23

“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

tags: beauty, girls

6877 likes

like

#24

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

7459 likes

like

#25

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

tags: attributed-no-source

19271 likes

like

#26

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, attributed-no-source

11790 likes

like

#27

“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: attributed-no-source

18700 likes

like

#28

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love

21627 likes

like

#29

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
― Marilyn Monroe

5809 likes

like

#30

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life

7274 likes

« previous 1 2 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Carmen’s Quotes

humor
obvious
simile
inspirational
music
philosophy
misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
reading
attributed-no-source
best
life
love
misattributed-marilyn-monroe
mistakes
out-of-control
truth
worst
books
dragons
fairy-tales
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
health
misattributed-mark-twain
misprints
dreams
tea
activism
optimism
world
marilyn-monroe
hollywood
kiss
soul
girl
makeup
animals
dogs
ambition
beauty
girls
alone
happiness