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Quotes About Monroe

Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.
~ Lily Cole
Washington. In Monroe's Cabinet, Secretary of
~ Jon Meacham
Bolívar celebró, junto a la mayoría de independistas latinoamericanos, la política de Monroe y de John Quincy Adams, como una salvaguarda contra el peligro de nuevas intervenciones europeas en las Américas
~ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
TEN MINUTES LATER, we were at the door of "Lake Expectations," the Monroes' cabin retreat, named after Mr. Monroe's favorite book.
~ James Howe
My first professional job was a Pete Bowker series for ITV called 'Monroe.' I played a Junior Cardiac Surgeon called Mullery.
~ Andrew Gower
Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
~ Elton John
There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.
~ Olivia De Berardinis
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Rock & roll music is a derivative of rockabilly music; rockabilly music is Bill Monroe and the blues tied together. That's it.
~ Richard D. Smith
The most striking hallmarks of so-called traditional bluegrass were fully defined during the Jimmy Martin years, long after Flatt and Scruggs had left the Blue Grass Boys. If Bill Monroe started bluegrass, Earl Scruggs certainly made it as popular as it is today. But it is crucial to recognize that Monroe was the prime creative organizer and artistic guiding force behind bluegrass.
~ Richard D. Smith
Unlike the stereotyped carousing, hotel room-smashing, self-destructive pop star, Monroe did not smoke, drink, or use drugs. But he did love women. Many of them.
~ Richard D. Smith
Meanwhile, the Flatt and Scruggs juggernaut rolled on. Under Louise Scruggs's shrewd management, Monroe's former sidemen had become the bluegrass darlings of the northern folk music revival.
~ Richard D. Smith
just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.
~ Ken Follett
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
~ Otto Preminger
The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.
~ Anne Bancroft
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
~ James Monroe
As a fellow member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.
~ Edward J. Larson
Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
~ Elton John
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
~ Paris Hilton
love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin
~ Mary Alice Monroe
Monroe's words might serve as something of a warning for us today, for his description of the Late Bronze Age, especially in terms of its economy and interactions, could well apply to our current globalized society, which is also feeling the effects of climate change.
~ Eric H. Cline
I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.
~ Maika Monroe
I think, sir, that a war, in the name of the Monroe Doctrine, will unite them to us.
~ Gore Vidal
Ronald Reagan is directly responsible for initiating the fame of Marilyn Monroe.
~ Bill O'Reilly