Unself Quotes

#1. In fact, because the unself-aware - which includes basically everybody - are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and what makes them tick are surprisingly useless.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.

Kingsley Amis

#3. I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. I give speeches at megachurches across America, and the one thing that's really striking about it is how utterly, completely diverse they are, and completely unself-consciously. At these huge megachurches the idea that the more Christian you are, the less tolerant you would be is preposterous.

Ann Coulter

#5. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things -

Dan Simmons

#6. White people can be so unself-conscious. It's offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.

Barbara Browning

#7. [At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

Amy Poehler

#8. 1. Only a total unself-consciousness will permit me to live with myself (202).

Annie Dillard

#9. When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

Alec Baldwin

#11. I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#12. Passionate intimacy between people of the same sex was common in pre - Civil War America. The lack of clear sexual categories (homo-, hetero-, bi-) made same-sex affection unself-conscious and widespread.

David S. Reynolds

#13. How does it feel to be helpless, Led?

To depend on something that fails you?

There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore.

You're alone now--

The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.

Rick Remender

#14. But wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

Laini Taylor

#15. I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#16. Man must have fear factor. other wise he is mere animal with sound health and body.

Yssubramanyam

#17. If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

Adolph Rupp

#18. I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

L'Wren Scott

#19. I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

Ann Goldstein

#20. Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner
love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#21. A nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

Orhan Pamuk