Being Egotistical Quotes

#1. If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

Matt Gonzalez

#2. Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

Elizabeth Taylor

#3. When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

Jerry Lewis

#4. Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Andrew P. Harris

#5. It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

Brian Helgeland

#6. I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#7. If she fell, if she broke, you'd find a million fragments in the morning. Bright crystal and clear wine on the parquet flooring, that's all you'd see at dawn.

Ray Bradbury

#8. I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#9. For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.

Francis Bacon

#10. Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.

Will Schwalbe

#11. John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Nasim Pedrad

#12. Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order for humankind to thrive

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#13. I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

John Green

#14. Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.

Sophocles

#15. I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

Rafael Vinoly

#16. We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#17. The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Norm MacDonald

#18. Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

Richard Baxter

#19. I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Akon

#20. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.

Robin Sacredfire

#21. Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

Cinda Williams Chima

#22. I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

Alicia Keys

#23. We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. Some widowers are bereaved
others, relieved.

Helen Rowland