Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

Joyce Carol Oates

I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.

Joyce Carol Oates

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Joyce Carol Oates

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Joyce Carol Oates

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Katha Pollitt

If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

Justin Vernon

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

Julie Bowen

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

Julie Delpy

I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.

Julie Burchill

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Lenny Kravitz

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

Laurie David

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

Laurie Halse Anderson

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Laura Benanti

We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I am a very selfish person.

L. Ron Hubbard

The only aberration is denial of self.

L. Ron Hubbard

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

Thomas Aquinas

The end of every maker is himself.

Thom Yorke

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

Therese of Lisieux

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Terry Tempest Williams

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

Terry Pratchett

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

Terry Gross

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

Terry Eagleton

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.

Terry Eagleton

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

Terry Goodkind

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Tennessee Williams

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!