Top 100 Mona's Quotes
#1. The mosaicist was making the fine hairs on the nape of Mona's swan neck out of chips of gold
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
Mona Simpson
#3. I do wonder, sometimes, if I had had a daughter, how I would have brought her up. How - when it's taken me so long to unlearn the things I believe are most damaging to the cause of women's liberation and equality - would I have raised my daughter to disobey?
Mona Eltahawy
#4. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.
Anne Rice
#5. Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.
Mona Singh
#6. The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.
Carl Gardner
#7. The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
#8. We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
Mona Simpson
#9. A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.
Mona Simpson
#10. I'm assuming Mona did something I need to know about. Tell me." Be a tattletale who whined to people's Primes? "No." "No?" Knox echoed with disbelief. Evidently, he wasn't denied things often. Well, Harper did like to introduce people to new experiences. It was more of a calling, really.
Suzanne Wright
#11. If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof
Jandy Nelson
#12. Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
William S. Burroughs
#13. People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa
Paul Pope
#14. I loved flawed art. Michelangelo's statue of Lorenzo with its warped base that rose to accommodate his foot, the Mona Lisa's missing eyebrows. Flaws were seriously underrated. They were beautiful if you looked at them just so.
Tarryn Fisher
#15. We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.
Mona Simpson
#16. Mirror Mirror on the Wall,
Who's fairest of them all?
I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain,
But the truth is - we all are Vain.
Saru Singhal
#17. Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
Mona Charen
#18. What he'd seen before, in those ages-ago times, the days before the people had been taught by the gods how to draw the metals from the ground and cut and grind the stone to shelter themselves, was contained in the goat god's nearly perpetual Mona Lisa smile.
Toneye Eyenot
#19. And yes, okay, I think she's pretty, but so? Lots of people, places and things are pretty. The Mona Lisa is pretty but you don't see me crushing on her.
J.C. Lillis
#20. I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.
Mona Sahlin
#21. One time Gifford had asked Mona: "What's the difference between men and women?" Mona had said: "Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.
Anne Rice
#22. And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.
Mona Simpson
#23. Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.
Mona Caird
#25. Even with my skin and tits, though, it's still Mel who looks better. She's got psoriasis and a mustache she has to bleach and still. It's definitely Mel who has any hope in hell with any of the boys we like.
Mona Awad
#26. Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.
Mona Simpson
#27. I believe it's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know.
Mona Eltahawy
#28. Life is good and it's a beautiful day!
Mona Scott
#29. Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.
Mona Charen
#30. It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.
Mona Singh
#31. Mona: "There's this girl who's following me around. I've been trying to lose her."
Elaine: "Black hair and amazing eye shadow, right? You can't lose her, Mona. But you're okay if we stick together. Anyone who's with me she sort of ignores.
Mike Carey
#32. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
Mona Sutphen
#33. Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.
E. J. Hughes
#34. That's quite all right, I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux.
Paul Murray
#35. I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.
Mona Simpson
#36. In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.
Mona Van Duyn
#37. The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
Mona Simpson
#38. It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.
Mona Rodriguez
#39. I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our Help in those times. The Bible's full of stories about good folks with troubles. Good folks. God-fearin' folks.
Mona Hodgson
#40. I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.
Mona Sutphen
#41. I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.
Mona Simpson
#42. The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind
Mona Eltahawy
#45. Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.
Mona Kuhn
#47. Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.
Mona Kuhn
#48. I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.
Mona Simpson
#49. I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
Pharrell Williams
#50. Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.
Tim O'Brien
#51. Equality is a practice, it's not just about words,
Mona Eltahawy
#52. Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
Mona Charen
#53. One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
Mac O'Grady
#54. I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.
Mona Simpson
#55. Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.
Mona Simpson
#56. Prologue: There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich wanting more, that of the sick, wanting something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mona Simpson
#57. We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.
Mona Simpson
#58. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
Mona Simpson
#59. Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
Mona Simpson
#60. In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.
Mona Simpson
#61. Why is violence significantly less traumatizing than our naked bodies?
Mona Eltahawy
#62. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
Prince Charles
#63. It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.
Mona Charen
#64. If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
Mona Sutphen
#65. My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
Mona Simpson
#66. I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
Mona Simpson
#67. her words filled John with a bittersweet
Mona Prevel
#68. I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
Pierre Boulez
#69. The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.
Mona Caird
#70. The way Eli looked at her, my dad looked at the food.
Mona Simpson
#71. One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.
C.M. Bacon
#72. It's what we do in our future, that decides how important our past truly was.
Mona Hodgson
#73. If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.
Mona Sahlin
#74. I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.
Mona Hatoum
#75. You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.
Dave Barry
#76. It's good to be fit and look good, especially when you are a part of the glamour industry.
Mona Singh
#77. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh
#78. Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself ... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
Mona Simpson
#79. Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
Mona Simpson
#80. Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
Mona Simpson
#82. Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.
Mona Charen
#83. Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.
Mona Charen
#84. There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."
'Mona Rogers in Person
Philip-Dimitri Galas
#85. And I had one of the guards tend to this." Mona lifts my chakram. "It's sharpened." Mona is my favorite.
Sara Raasch
#86. My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.
Mona Simpson
#87. But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.
Mona Awad
#88. We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
Mona Caird
#89. To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
Mona Eltahawy
#90. One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.
Mona Charen
#91. A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong
#92. The world around you may have shifted, seen you in a different light. But the Mona Lisa is a masterpiece whether it's in a pitch-black room, under a strobe light, or in the sun.
I. W. Gregorio
#93. It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.
Mona Singh
#94. Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.
Orson Scott Card
#95. I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
Grimes
#96. The quill has pricked my soul and each word bleeds onto the parchment of my life. My freedom is in my words, therefore, I write.
Mona Bethke
#97. It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
Mona Simpson
#98. If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
Stephanie Perkins
#99. Only my complacent Mona crossed the crack with a simple step . . .
She wasn't depressed or angry. In fact, she seemed to verge on laughter. 'He always said he would never take his own advice, because he knew it was worthless.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#100. I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.
Mona Simpson
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
