Quotes About Your Own Self

#1. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]

Julian Barnes

#2. You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

Poppy Delevingne

#3. All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

George Washington Carver

#4. If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Du Fu

#6. I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#7. You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

Cleo Moore

#8. Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

John Moody

#10. There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

#12. The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

Margaret Oliphant

#13. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

Melina Kanakaredes