Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Avedon

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Wordsworth

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

William James

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Robert Schumann

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Samuel Johnson

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

W. S. Gilbert

Just the atmosphere in the locker room Saturday was unbelievable. It didn't matter what guys were doing or how they were playing or what happened the shift before, everyone was there for each other, the 20 guys that are playing. It was just a feeling that we knew we weren't going to lose. As of right now, we still have that feeling.

Phil Williams

I think it's a good experience to get kids used to a tough atmosphere and it's sort of like a state meet.

Limas Sweed

I think it helps a lot knowing your atmosphere and what to expect of the field you are going to be playing on. You can come to things a lot more at ease and ready to go.

Marques Hagans

I think it has been going good. There has been a lot of energy. I think the atmosphere has been good. We are looking forward to going out and giving a good showing on Friday.

Dave Palmquist

I think it is a wait-and-see situation. I certainly enjoyed the atmosphere at Ridder. It was perfect for girls' hockey. We will have to just wait and make judgments after we see how it goes.

Lleyton Hewitt

I always feel pretty comfortable when I get to Flushing Meadows. I really like the atmosphere and the court surface there. I think the whole tournament really suits my game and my attitude as well.

George P. Shultz

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

Agnus Berenato

This was a great college atmosphere tonight for women's basketball.

Fred Funk

He really wanted to be Tiger's partner, and Tiger can't help but get motivated by that. Jim won't get caught up in the atmosphere or the pressure that goes with playing with him. You get Tiger a guy who is hitting on all cylinders mentally and won't get intimidated by that atmosphere, and that's a big plus.

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Jonathan Swift

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Paul Pierce

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

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.