Quotes About Surviving Middle School

#1. Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Peter Akinola

#2. Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.

Angela Merkel

#3. You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

Lady Gaga

#4. I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

Geddy Lee

#5. I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor.

Morgan Freeman

#6. Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad.

Hilary Mantel

#7. I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Iris Murdoch

#8. To write is a humiliation.

Edward Dahlberg

#9. Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Desiree Rogers

#11. The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Alcaeus

#12. Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

Mark Cuban

#13. The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. When one is speaking of the essence of things, it often happens that one can only speak in generalities. Concrete things capture one's attention, but they are often a little more than trivia. The more one tires to see into the distance, the more generalized things become.

Haruki Murakami