Self Quotes
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"I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person."
Quote by -Dawn French
"The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
Quote by -Dawn French
"The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.”
Quote by -Aesop
“I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!”
Quote by -Aesop
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Quote by -Macaulay Culkin
I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.
Quote by -Zsa Zsa Gabor
I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
Quote by -Zsa Zsa Gabor
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Quote by -Zsa Zsa Gabor