Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

George Bernard Shaw

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers

Tom Clancy

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

J. I. Packer

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Horace

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Lana Turner

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Patricia Richardson

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Patty Griffin

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Eminem

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

George Black

He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.

Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Karen McCrary

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

Grenville Kleiser

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Horace

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...

H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.