Myself And I Quotes

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
- Hasil Adkins

in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.
- Mariah Carey

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
- Pamela Anderson

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
- Oprah Winfrey

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.
- William Shatner

You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror.
- Jay Asher

Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
- Erykah Badu

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
- Javier Bardem

I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers.-Clive Barker
- Clive Barker

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
- Simone De Beauvoir

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.
- Ingrid Betancourt

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.
- Selma Blair

The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
- Neal Shusterman

I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.
- Lauren Bush

Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave.
You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.
- Italo Calvino

I'll never disgrace myself. And I swear, it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
- Truman Capote

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
- Giacomo Casanova

You will be leaving, of course."
"Or I could help you."
"I've had a bit of practice bathing myself and I think I can stumble my way through this.
- Kresley Cole

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
- Jackie Deshannon

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
- Lauren Destefano

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?
- Susan Wiggs

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.
- Alexander Dubcek

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
- Helen Dunmore

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him... I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck... Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.
- Bob Dylan

Do you mind?" she asked.
"Mind what?"
"While you were looking in the mirror I couldn't help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I'm doing the polite thing again and asking, 'do you mind?'"
"No, Nina. I don't mind at all."
Then she leaned down and kissed him.
- Richard Finney

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience....
You ask why I speak? I am neither informed against, nor pursued, nor hunted, say you. Yes! I am informed against! yes! I am pursued! yes! I am hunted! By whom? by myself. It is I myself who bar the way before myself, and I drag myself, and I urge myself, and I check myself and I exert myself, and when one holds himself he is well held.
- Victor Hugo

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
- Tab Hunter

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
- Michael J Fox

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
- Leo Tolstoy

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
- Steven Gerrard

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.
- Arthur Godfrey

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.
- Selena Gomez

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
- Pam Grier

Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.
- Andy Griffith

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
- Merle Haggard

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.
- John Hall

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
- Anthony Hamilton

I'm having an argument with myself, and I'm losing.
So not a good sign
- Cynthia Hand

Coward, says the nagging voice inside my head. You should talk to him. Find out what he has to say.
What if he says we belong together?
Well, then you'll have to deal with that. But at least you won't be running away.
I think it's more of a brisk walk.
Whatever.
I'm having an argument with myself. And I'm losing. So not a good sign.
- Cynthia Hand

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
- Martina Hingis

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
- Hal Holbrook

I am myself and I am here.
- Jean Paul Sartre

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.
- Tito Jackson

My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.
Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings
- Eloisa James

...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.
- Tove Jansson

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
- Jayz

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
- C G Jung

If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That's not slavery. That'll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won't pay them, but they are me, so it's not slavery.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm in disguise. I'm disguised as myself, and I'm a master of disguise, so that's why you couldn't tell I was in disguise. Not even my clone could tell.
- Jarod Kintz

I just weighed myself, and I thought I weighed 165, but it turns out I weigh 180. Wow! I've put on muscle mass and I haven't even been working out at all!
- Jarod Kintz

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
- John Keegan

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
- Sue Monk Kidd

To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.
- Nicole Kidman

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
- Tommy Kirk

This is the female form, vapor,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable..
- Walt Whitman

Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.'
Skulduggery paused. 'No it's not. If it were me, then I'd be talking to myself, and I don't do that any more. I certainly don't RING myself. That's one of the first signs of madness, and if it's not, it should be.'
She sighed. 'Are you finished talking nonsense?'
'I haven't talked nonsense all morning. I miss it.
- Derek Landy

I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
- C S Lewis

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
- Lennox Lewis

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
- Jeff Lynne

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!
- Chris Martin

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
- Thomas Merton

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
- Thomas Merton

It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.
- Donald Miller

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
- Bernard Law Montgomery

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.
- James P Moran

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
- Samuel E Morison

But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.
- Michael Morpurgo

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
- Donny Most

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.
- Indra Nooyi

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
- Georgia Okeeffe

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
- Michelle Obama

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.
- Ehud Olmert

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want.
- Anna Paquin

I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?
- Elizabeth Marie Pope

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
- Victoria Principal

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
- Mike Quade

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.
- Jerry Rice

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
- Ann Robinson

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
- Robert Rodriguez

A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared from myself and my attributes,
I am present only for you.
I've forgotten all my learnings,
but from knowing you I've become a scholar.
I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.
I love myself...I love you.
I love you...I love myself.
- Rumi

There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.
- Geoff Ryman

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
- Elie Saab

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
- Barbra Streisand

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.
- Luke Scott

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.
- Seal

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
- John Sexton

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.
- Patti Smith

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
- Wanda Sykes

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
- David Foster Wallace

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
- David Walliams

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
- Gemma Ward

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
- Dionne Warwick

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
- Roger Waters

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
- Jackie Weaver

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
- Eli Whitney

Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you.
Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there).
- Dacia Wilkinson

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
- Evan Rachel Wood

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
- Loretta Young