Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane G. Carey

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Douglas Leone

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

Douglas Hofstadter

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Adelle Davis

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

Adele

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Adele

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Adele

I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Adele

I love hearing my audience breathe.

Adele

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

Adele

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

Adele

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Adam Rodriguez

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Adam Brody

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Abraham Verghese

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

Abraham Lincoln

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Angie Stone

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

Ani Difranco

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Andy Irons

Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

Andrew Marvell

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

Andrew Mason

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

Amy Ray

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Amy Lowell

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

Amy Lee

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

Allan Bloom

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Allan Bloom

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

Allan Bloom

The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Alison Lurie

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

Alison Lurie

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

Ann Druyan

By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

Ann Landers

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.