Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Pesky

He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around.

Sarah Silverman

I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, I want pussy! Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

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.

William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Mark Twain

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

William Shakespeare

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Richard Powers

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Tupac Shakur

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Tupac Shakur

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Wallace Stegner

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

Samuel Beckett

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Walton Goggins

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Rod Serling

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

John Cena

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

Eric Holder

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Rod Smith

I'm p---ed off, trust me. But what can I do about it now? All I can do is go to work tomorrow (and) look at the tape hard.

Harvey Korman

Tape Seinfeld for me.

Prince Philip

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Doug Stanhope

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.

Anne Lamott

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Patti Hansen

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.