Quotes About Struggle

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Youre a woman whos been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but youll have to stay in the garage all night.

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President .

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my rocketship underpants dont help.

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

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

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

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.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

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.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

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.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.