Egomania Quotes

#1. To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. We performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

Leontyne Price

#3. The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

David Harewood

#5. Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

Marianne Moore

#6. This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Tina Fey

#7. To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Judith Crist

#8. Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion, just as I am entitled to think Coelho's work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.

Stuart Kelly

#9. Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Laozi

#10. I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

Herb Kelleher

#11. Nothing is more important than my egomania!

Clara

#12. [On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace.

Michael Holroyd

#13. It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Simon Amstell

#15. This time, I won't lose my way. I'm going to believe in myself.

Satoshi Shiki

#16. I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

AnnaLynne McCord

#17. Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

Colin Fletcher

#18. See how weak prose is ... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.

Jack Spicer

#19. Happiness, or contentment, comes from where we look and what we believe, not from what we have.

Lydia Brownback

#20. The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

Marianne Williamson

#21. There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Harper Lee

#22. Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Dawn French

#23. I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

Jon Stewart

#24. I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.

Mary Quant

#25. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Robert Jordan

#26. We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not.

Frank Pearce

#27. U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. There was a time when country never used to do videos.

Crystal Gayle