Ego Booster Quotes

#1. It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

Walter Russell Mead

#2. His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all it needed-and walk out into the open air. It was torture and at last he became numb and hopeless.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

Fridtjof Nansen

#4. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Amelie Mauresmo

#5. (Peaceful Jews, I like that. Could be the only example in history of peaceful Jews. No surprise that only Hollywood could come with a concept like peaceful Jews, which is surely a type of human being that has never before been seen in history. Go tell the Palestinians about peaceful Jews.)

Anonymous

#6. Gratitude is a way of creativity.

Nadia Bandura

#7. Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

Stephen Collins

#8. There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

Joe Torre

#9. I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

Eric Lange

#10. Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Steve Allen

#11. All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older, wiser, and made different choices.

Akiva Schaffer

#12. Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.

Zadie Smith

#13. We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

Aleksey Igudesman