Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ladd

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

Charles de Lint

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

Eckhart Tolle

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Edward Norton

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

Jane Green

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

Jane Jacobs

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know. Sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

Bob Saget

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

Beth Moore

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Aaron Swartz

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Charlie Gonzalez

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charles de Lint

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Brian Chesky

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Brian Cox

As we get older, things seem less important.

Brian Cox

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Jase Robertson

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.