Quotes About Egomaniacs

#1. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#2. There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.

Anthony Kiedis

#3. Artists are ... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.

Jon Pareles

#4. His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.

James S.A. Corey

#5. Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Norman Mailer

#6. Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

Joshua Cohen

#7. Oh, what marvelous egomaniacs you men are!

Nora Roberts

#8. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Gary Oldman

#9. He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out

Dennis Lehane

#10. Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Lynda Obst

#11. Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.

Dennis Perrin

#12. If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

Gail Caldwell

#13. It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink.

Dido Armstrong

#14. I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.

Kanye West

#15. I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Kanye West

#16. Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man

Cesare Pavese

#17. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

Clive James

#18. There will never be a reunion, as I will never do anything with an asshole like Will Smith. He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn't know the word.

Janet Hubert

#19. The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

Adam Phillips

#20. In between reason and faith is a happy place, an inch away from where lies sorrow, an inch away from where lie peace

Anonymous

#21. Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.

T. B. Joshua

#22. A lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

Starhawk

#23. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

Robert Kurson

#24. You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

Jane Smiley

#25. The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

Kanye West

#26. A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Quentin Crisp

#27. The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.

Bill O'Reilly

#28. Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Aristotle.

#29. If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

James Purdy

#30. I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.

Harlan Ellison

#31. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

Norman Vincent Peale

#32. The god inside the man glanced at Aly. "This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear."
Aly beamed at him. "So it is. And the game begins.

Tamora Pierce

#33. I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.

Marina And The Diamonds

#34. Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded.
"I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over

J.R. Ward

#35. Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

John M. Ford

#36. When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous ...
("A Wine of Wizardry")

George Sterling

#37. Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Janet Street-Porter