Comfortable With Quotes

#1. Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Richard Rohr

#2. I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Bernie Taupin

#3. I have my own little path, and although I delve into things, I stay with what I am. Im quite natural with it. Maybe people feel comfortable with that and they trust it, so they buy it. Theyll come and see me in concert. I think I always do a good job in that area.

Sarah Brightman

#4. My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

Annie Leibovitz

#5. The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

#6. No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career - something will inevitably ruin it.

Timothy Keller

#7. The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.

Marissa Haddlin

#8. From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

Patti Smith

#9. I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

Lily Collins

#10. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Edwards

#11. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

Joe Biden

#12. I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.

Jason Bateman

#13. Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time
you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Jon Bon Jovi

#14. I'd spoken with Milo in Spanish only enough to know that he wasn't as comfortable with it as I was. There were plenty of Latinos who would consider Milo's lack of fluency a personal insult. A cultural lobotomy.

Rick Riordan

#15. For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don't like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came home with mud in my hair every day. I've always been more comfortable with guys; I don't know why.

Troian Bellisario

#17. Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

David Niven

#18. I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Keira Knightley

#19. In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

Sarah Gadon

#20. If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

Harold Ramis

#21. I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

Don DeLillo

#22. Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?

Benjamin Wood

#23. When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Imelda Marcos

#24. I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

Shelley Duvall

#25. As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Eric Church

#26. The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

Alfonso Soriano

#27. I'm getting comfortable with West Coast style, which is more laid-back than British style.

Cat Deeley

#28. When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

Daniela Pestova

#29. I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love.

Jessie J.

#30. I'd like to have a little better relationship with the media. It's just that I don't think the media is comfortable with me.

Vijay Singh

#31. I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#32. I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

Wanda Sykes

#33. I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like ... finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.

Candice Proctor

#34. We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

John Barton

#35. I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Caitlin Doughty

#36. Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.

Arianna Huffington

#37. I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.

Brody Jenner

#38. Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

Beyonce Knowles

#39. The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

Jennie Finch

#40. It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.

Sheryl Sandberg

#41. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).

Mark Manson

#42. I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Art Spiegelman

#43. I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that I'm still the same person I was in junior high. With Idina, I didn't have to be ashamed of the nerd inside that came out.

Taye Diggs

#44. If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

Spike Lee

#45. It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Sydney J. Harris

#46. I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

Drake

#47. The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.

Larry Gagosian

#48. It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Rodney King

#49. I try to go with the flow, and I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. I feel courageous enough to go outside myself and try something new, like everything in life.

Steve Nash

#50. I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Dave Grohl

#51. I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

Ricky Schroder

#52. I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

#53. I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Seth Numrich

#54. It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

Olivia Culpo

#55. Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.

Colbie Caillat

#56. Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.

Erma Bombeck

#57. We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

John P. Kotter

#58. From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

Busy Philipps

#59. The room is a special place. It's not "A room" it's THE room. It's a place where there is no restriction. If we title it "a room" it can be any room but it's THE room so it is a special place. We all have this place. It's like our little corner that you are comfortable with.

Tommy Wiseau

#60. I know I'm not a buff dude in any sense, but I'm more than comfortable with my body.

Brendon Urie

#61. You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

Merlin Mann

#62. That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.

Connor Franta

#63. I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Natalie Coughlin

#64. A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Walter Kirn

#65. It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

Alison Sweeney

#66. I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

Jeb Bush

#67. I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Bert Blyleven

#68. For the first time in my life I feel truly free, truly strong and comfortable with who I am and what I stand for. The future feels like an exciting adventure and I am a daring explorer ... who knows what I'll discover? But I know it's going to be fun!

Maria Rodale

#69. Be comfortable with "Not getting to bottom of everything"

Sometimes unconsciously we must find out why this happened, who started what, how am I going to do this.
Have faith that things will work out, and be GOOD with knowing that some things are unexplainable.

Matthew Donnelly

#70. The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#71. I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.

Gurinder Chadha

#72. Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.

Nikki Cox

#73. Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.

Christian Louboutin

#74. A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

Felicity Kendal

#75. Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts ... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#76. Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Craig Thompson

#77. Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Susan Wojcicki

#78. I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

Tracey Gold

#79. In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.

Janet Rebhan

#80. A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

Olivia Wilde

#81. And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

Laura Hillenbrand

#82. You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing - if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely.

Sherman Alexie

#83. You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

Tommy Bowden

#84. I was more comfortable with guys growing up, but now I find myself more comfortable in my own skin and open to people, regardless of their gender or popularity or any other label, as a result.

Gillian Zinser

#85. Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Xiaolu Guo

#86. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

#87. Death is a great tragedy ... a profound loss ... I don't accept it ... I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Ray Kurzweil

#88. I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me ... like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

Michelle M. Pillow

#89. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.

C. JoyBell C.

#90. Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.

Yadin Kaufmann

#91. Without challenge we become too comfortable with life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little.

Don DeLillo

#93. I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

Tracey Ullman

#94. Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Gore Verbinski

#95. I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

John Malkovich

#96. Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

Jesse Schell

#97. I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Drew Barrymore

#98. Don't let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.

Anonymous

#99. There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Stuart Wilde

#100. I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

Cobie Smulders