Top 100 Quotes About Myself
#1. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
Brenda Perlin
#2. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power
#3. I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.
Will Christopher Baer
#4. I want to taste your skin, Evelyn. I want to worship your curves exactly how they should be worshiped. I want to bury myself inside you. The longer you make me wait, the harder I will fuck you. The longer you are beneath me, your ability to walk the next day will be non-existent.
Lilly James
#5. I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.
Jamie Lynn Spears
#6. Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#7. In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
Al Yankovic
#8. I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
Anushka Sharma
#9. There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele
#10. I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
Peter Eisenman
#11. I'm very proud of myself because I have come so close to just giving up and I haven't done that.
Brandy Norwood
#12. Pigpen assesses Razor with a half-sarcastic grin. "Now, that's how we work. Razor calls this clean, so I'll drive Kyle home to Mom and Dad myself.
Katie McGarry
#13. I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Elton John
#14. It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
Christian Bale
#15. And finally: I reserve for myself the right to yearn after an ecological niche:
...Beneath the sky
Of my America to sigh
For one locality in Russia.
(a passage not for 'general readers' but for 'idiots')
Vladimir Nabokov
#16. Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.
Christine Vachon
#17. Every love is different, I said to myself. Love is love, but the way people experience it is different. One hundred people love in one hundred different ways. So there's no love that isn't special
Lee Seung-u
#18. I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
Mickey Rourke
#19. I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.
Sarah J. Maas
#20. I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
Seth MacFarlane
#21. I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.
Richard Simmons
#22. I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.
Shayne Ward
#23. Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare.
Paul Mason
#24. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth
#25. I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'
Mary J. Blige
#26. Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
Ricky Williams
#27. I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.
Drake
#28. It's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a celebrity.
Skandar Keynes
#29. I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#30. I am hit with the enormity of the impact that this family is having in my life. They, and mostly Chris, are saving me. Or teaching me to save myself.
Jessica Park
#31. It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#32. Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.
Robert Baden-Powell
#33. I will control myself, or go inside.
I will not flaw perfection with my grief.
Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#34. Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
#35. I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as I whispered that it would be okay, that she still had me, and I would never leave. Ant then I wanted to kick myself in the head for thinking that
Julie Kagawa
#36. I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.
John Searles
#37. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
Elie Wiesel
#38. What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
#39. To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.
Robert Griffin III
#41. I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira
#42. If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
#43. I consoled myself with the fact that I had max. He's warm, attentive and completely devoted. Who could ask for anything more
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
Sammi Carter
#44. The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
Terry Teachout
#45. If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!
Busy Philipps
#46. Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
Joseph Campbell
#47. I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.
Donatella Versace
#49. Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.
Anne Lamott
#51. I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.
Terry Pratchett
#52. I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.
Lance Berkman
#53. You need to get in the Baptist way of churching, son. Ours welcomes newcomers. You can take this place, and maybe some Sunday you can come with me n my wife.'
'Maybe so,' I agreed, reminding myself to be in a coma that Sunday. Possibly dead.
Stephen King
#54. I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brusher her hair, was her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.
K.Michelle
#55. I tried on different versions of myself. I was so many different girls...
Jennifer Elisabeth
#56. Could I ever respect myself again if I stooped to their level?
A.S. King
#57. I, for one, approve of Lock's new mom car. Obviously I wouldn't be caught dead owning one myself, but I like that we can transport a body and have enough cup holders for all of us.
Lish McBride
#58. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
Charles Dickens
#59. Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
Herb Ritts
#60. I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
Jonathan Lethem
#61. It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside
Carolyn Mackler
#62. I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.
Nadya Suleman
#63. I honestly produce for myself, not for other people and everyone who supports me I'm really, really, really am thankful for the fact they are supporting me. However, in dance music, you need to switch it up sometimes.
Nicky Romero
#64. I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.
Terry Fox
#65. If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich ...
Alice James
#66. I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
Alice Oswald
#67. Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.
Julia Glass
#68. I decided that was my answer to questions of fate. I could go around asking myself what if x hadn't happened, and the answer would always be, "But it did.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#69. Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
Carlo Rubbia
#70. Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
Kim Harrison
#71. My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
Alanis Morissette
#72. I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
Indra Devi
#73. I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.
Warren Zevon
#75. Useless to tell myself that a dream
and the memory of yesterday are the same thing
BORGES JORGE LUIS
#76. It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?
China Mieville
#77. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
#78. I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
Will Durant
#79. As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#80. In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.
Anna Faris
#81. I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?
Chris Hardwick
#82. Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.
Liza Lugo
#83. Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.
Miranda Kerr
#84. No, no." Amaranthe lifted a hand. "You needn't let me know you think my idea has promise. It's been nearly three months since the last time I almost got myself killed, so I'm brimming with self-confidence. I don't need bolstering.
Lindsay Buroker
#85. I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.
Rory Kinnear
#86. I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
Alan Dean Foster
#87. Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?
Beth Moore
#88. This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. Every sacrifice I make is for the good of my Clan - and for the other Clans around the lake. Even if that means sacrificing myself.
Erin Hunter
#90. I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.
Asafa Powell
#91. That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.
Girl Talk
#92. I watched him go and told myself that the only reason I was smiling like that was because the cameras were hidden somewhere, not because of anything Kile Woodwork had done.
Kiera Cass
#93. As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.
Lucy Fry
#94. Of Equality
as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself
as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Walt Whitman
#95. It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
Simone Weil
#96. Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
Keith Urban
#97. The only real influence I've ever had is myself.
Edward Hopper
#98. Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
John Elder Robison
#99. What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible ...
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#100. I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.
Kit Harington
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