Monica Quotes

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.

People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll never know, I'm different now, You've helped me grow.

Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Envy is human nature.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

You can insist on a different end to the story.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.