Unselfconscious Quotes

#1. There were crinkles at the corners of his eyes, which were merry and asquint with unselfconscious happiness. The change was profound. If he was beautiful when grave-and he was-smiling, he was nothing short of glorious.

Laini Taylor

#2. I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. When a baby first looks at you ... when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you ... then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

Marilyn French

#4. I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

Julia Kent

#5. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer

#6. Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]

Germaine Greer

#7. I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible.

Amitav Ghosh

#8. When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

Sandra Cisneros

#9. The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

Robert Menzies

#10. She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

Ilsa J. Bick

#11. I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Abbie Cornish

#12. What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

St. Lucia

#13. Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.

Juliana Hatfield

#14. Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Bryant H. McGill

#15. Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan.

Joseph Jacobs

#16. The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

#17. Everything else seemed trivial; like talking about your favourite film while your airplane is falling out of the sky.

Valeria Kogan

#18. Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Ayn Rand

#19. Just believe me when I say you can't trust anything you read on the Internet until you confirm it.

Seanan McGuire

#20. There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

Erma Bombeck

#22. Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#23. No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

Hilary Mantel

#24. The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.

Thomas Merton