Saturday 20 October 2012

Time For Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

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

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far." Marilyn Monroe

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

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any." 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've never dropped anyone I believed in." Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe Quotes
Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950), drew attention. By 1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
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"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress." Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot." 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

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

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered." Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." Marilyn Monroe

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

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine." Marilyn Monroe

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

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

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one." Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signature

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

 "If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe

Friday 19 October 2012

Time For Jimi Hendrix Quotes

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music." Jimi Hendrix

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes." Jimi Hendrix

"My nature just changes." Jimi Hendrix

"Music is my religion." Jimi Hendrix

"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction." Jimi Hendrix

"When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man." Jimi Hendrix

"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan." Jimi Hendrix

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel." Jimi Hendrix

"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first." Jimi Hendrix

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite his mainstream exposure being limited to four years. He achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival after initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.

Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. Hendrix was a pioneer in experimentation with stereophonic phasing effects in rock music recordings. He was influenced by electric blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, surf rock guitarist Dick Dale, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964, through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
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"Excuse me while I kiss the sky." Jimi Hendrix

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." Jimi Hendrix

"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts." Jimi Hendrix

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do." Jimi Hendrix

"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it." Jimi Hendrix

"Music is a safe kind of high." Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life." Jimi Hendrix

"If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment." Jimi Hendrix

"We have time, there's no big rush." Jimi Hendrix

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky." Jimi Hendrix Quotes

"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows." Jimi Hendrix

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life." Jimi Hendrix

"See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues." Jimi Hendrix

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art." Jimi Hendrix

"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye." Jimi Hendrix

"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland." Jimi Hendrix

"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked." Jimi Hendrix

"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." Jimi Hendrix

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." Jimi Hendrix

"I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something." Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's Signature

"You have to give people something to dream on." Jimi Hendrix

"It all has to come from inside, though, I guess." Jimi Hendrix

"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually." Jimi Hendrix

"When I die, just keep playing the records." Jimi Hendrix

"I try to use my music to move these people to act." Jimi Hendrix

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded." Jimi Hendrix

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man." Jimi Hendrix

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." Jimi Hendrix

"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel." Jimi Hendrix

Sunday 14 October 2012

Time For Bob Marley Quotes

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say." Bob Marley

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die." Bob Marley

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." Bob Marley

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley

"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet." Bob Marley

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" Bob Marley

"The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory." Bob Marley

"Man is a universe within himself." Bob Marley

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight." Bob Marley

"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality." Bob Marley

Bob Marley Quotes
Bob Marley performing in concert, circa 1980.

Nesta Robert Marley, more widely and commonly known as "Bob Marley" OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.
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"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall." Bob Marley

"You have to be someone." Bob Marley

"Tell the children the truth." Bob Marley

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself." Bob Marley

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!" Bob Marley

"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley

"My future is righteousness." Bob Marley

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open." Bob Marley

"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley Quotes


"I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through." Bob Marley

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction." Bob Marley

"In this bright future you can't forget your past." Bob Marley

"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow." Bob Marley

Friday 12 October 2012

Time For Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." Arthur Conan Doyle

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." Arthur Conan Doyle

"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so." Arthur Conan Doyle

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge." Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was English of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They married in 1855. In 1864 the family dispersed due to Charles's growing alcoholism and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in the squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place.
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"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them." Arthur Conan Doyle

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." Arthur Conan Doyle

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children." Arthur Conan Doyle

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless." Arthur Conan Doyle

"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem." Arthur Conan Doyle

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." Arthur Conan Doyle

"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty." Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." Arthur Conan Doyle


"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Arthur Conan Doyle

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." Arthur Conan Doyle

Thursday 11 October 2012

Time For George Burns Quotes

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up." George Burns

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." George Burns

"You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair." George Burns

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." George Burns

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." George Burns

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." George Burns

"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked." George Burns

"At my age flowers scare me." George Burns

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." George Burns

George Burns Quotes
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1986

George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Naftaly Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.

He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Beginning at the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian, continuing to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100.

Naftaly (later called Nathan) Birnbaum was born on January 20, 1896 in New York City, the ninth of 12 children born to Louis "Lippe" and Dorah (née Bluth) Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from Romania. Burns was also an active member of the First Roumanian-American congregation. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but usually worked as a coat presser. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Lippe Birnbaum contracted the flu and died at the age of 47. Nattie (as he was then called) went to work to help support the family, shining shoes, running errands, and selling newspapers.

When he landed a job as a syrup maker in a local candy shop at age seven, he was "discovered," as he recalled long after:
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"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money." George Burns

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." George Burns

"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." George Burns

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." George Burns

"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." George Burns

"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill." George Burns

"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." George Burns

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." George Burns

"If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it." George Burns

"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill." George Burns Quotes

"Be quick to learn and wise to know." George Burns

"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope." George Burns

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick." George Burns

"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." George Burns

"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." George Burns

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two." George Burns

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age." George Burns

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday." George Burns

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." George Burns

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life." George Burns

"I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something." George Burns

"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere." George Burns

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." George Burns

"How can I die? I'm booked." George Burns

"It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere." George Burns