Myself Quotes

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritu...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other peopl...

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting a...

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have don...

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to...

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust my...

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passin...

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their...

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able t...

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning ...

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does his...

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand ...

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a bli...

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs w...

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a...

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of gr...

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I b...

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own indepen...

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistak...

I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a ...

One of the most important things for me is my hair. I've always been about my hair, and I love that ...

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I lik...

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I ...

I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I wo...

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with ...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth reward...

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't he...

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiv...

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had ...

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuf...

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself b...

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself be...

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak wor...

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. ...

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in v...

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself...

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic ...

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long ...

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five...

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His ...

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showe...

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can...

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go o...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I hav...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and...

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I...

I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's wo...

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search fo...

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even thi...

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I ...

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come...

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea th...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and...

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people w...

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is prob...

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next...

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it alwa...

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just reall...

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than ...

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encou...

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I c...

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to...

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mist...

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

When I give I give myself.

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have...

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as ...

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As ...

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the l...

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else;...

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indee...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he...

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched ...

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, whi...

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never kn...

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them ...

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. A...

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. N...

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said...