Top 100 Quotes About Mona
#1. It's good to be fit and look good, especially when you are a part of the glamour industry.
Mona Singh
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. It's what we do in our future, that decides how important our past truly was.
Mona Hodgson
#6. One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.
C.M. Bacon
#7. The way Eli looked at her, my dad looked at the food.
Mona Simpson
#8. 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
#9. I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.
Pierre Boulez
#10. her words filled John with a bittersweet
Mona Prevel
#11. I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
Mona Simpson
#12. Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
Mona Charen
#13. If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
Mona Sutphen
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Why is violence significantly less traumatizing than our naked bodies?
Mona Eltahawy
#17. 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
#18. Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.
Mona Simpson
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
Mac O'Grady
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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.
#28. If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
Stephanie Perkins
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.
Orson Scott Card
#33. It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.
Mona Singh
#34. 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
#35. A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong
#36. One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.
Mona Charen
#37. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh
#38. We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
Mona Caird
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. And I had one of the guards tend to this." Mona lifts my chakram. "It's sharpened." Mona is my favorite.
Sara Raasch
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
Mona Simpson
#47. Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.
Mona Simpson
#48. 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
#49. To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.
Mona Eltahawy
#50. I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.
Mona Sutphen
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.
Mona Caird
#54. What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [ ... ] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Camille Paglia
#55. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#56. In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.
Mona Simpson
#57. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
#58. For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.
Mona Singh
#59. How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.
Stanley Kubrick
#60. 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
#61. On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.)
The Case of the Seven of Calvary
Anthony Boucher
#62. Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
Chuck Palahniuk
#63. Well, is it pornography or is it art? Well as far as I'm concerned, the Mona Lisa is art.
Shaun Micallef
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after
Mona Simpson
#70. Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
Chuck Palahniuk
#71. 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
#72. Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
Mona Charen
#73. Truth telling is the first building block of character
a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.
Mona Charen
#74. I'd spend hours hunting for something - anything - that would render me moderately fuckable. And if not fuckable, something in which I could grieve over the fact of not being fuckable with unbaubled dignity. I
Mona Awad
#75. I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.
Emo Philips
#76. We will have a reckoning with our culture and religion, with military rulers and Islamists - two sides of one coin. Such a reckoning is essentially a feminist one. And it is what will eventually free us. Women - our rage, our tenacity, our daring and audacity - will free our countries.
Mona Eltahawy
#77. 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
#78. Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.
Mona Charen
#79. David was holding Mona steady. I hoped he also had a little attention to spare to keep us unnoticed from the ground; seeing a Dodge Viper do a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the desert sky might be a little hard to explain, even for UFO nuts.
Rachel Caine
#80. Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
Mona Simpson
#81. Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#82. [The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.
Mona Kuhn
#83. Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us to expose and to fight against local versions of it, in the understanding that by doing so we advance the global struggle.
Mona Eltahawy
#84. The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.
Mona Van Duyn
#85. Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
Mona Simpson
#86. Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.
Mona Charen
#87. 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
#88. Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten.
Eoin Colfer
#89. We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
Mona Simpson
#90. Well, now I felt horrible. I'd marred perfectly good ass cheeks for no reason. It was as if I'd sneezed on the Mona Lisa.
Molly Harper
#91. I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
Mona Van Duyn
#92. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.
Tamara Hoffa
#93. 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
#94. People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa
Paul Pope
#95. The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf...
William Gaddis
#97. There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation.
Mona Charen
#98. I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.
Mona Simpson
#99. Later on I'm going to be really fucking beautiful. I'm going to grow into that nose and develop an eating disorder. I'll be hungry and angry all my life but I'll also have a hell of a time.
Mona Awad
#100. 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
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