Myself Quotes

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody ...

I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo...

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool m...

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resou...

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and ...

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and k...

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to...

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was...

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it a...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry ...

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid...

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adul...

I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I though...

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing...

In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical g...

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put ...

People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah,...

I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether...

I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself...

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, w...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than ...

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or...

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my p...

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my...

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply...

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end...

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...