Aggrandising Quotes

#1. There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Anna Chancellor

#2. Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Chris Isaak

#3. I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if the gas tank says "E", I get all cocky - "I've got this one, don't worry." So I get out the toolbox AKA wallet.

Mitch Hedberg

#4. I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy.

Jessie Burton

#5. Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Muhammad Yunus

#6. The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

John George Nicolay

#7. The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp

Mark E. Smith

#8. There is only one plot - things are not what they seem.

Jim Thompson

#9. A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

Dana Gould

#10. We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Kenneth Tynan

#11. Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Jessica Mitford

#12. Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

Clive Anderson

#13. What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#14. It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was.

Kate Atkinson

#15. How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

Joseph O'Connor

#16. As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

Jeanne Moreau