Me Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Me Quotes from famous persons: Michael Jordan, Cicely Tyson, Bill Dana, Willie Nelson, Alice Walker. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Me Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to pr

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
2
I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.
3
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Bill Dana
4
Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’
5
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.
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That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
8
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward
9
I am overwhelmed by the love showered on me by my fans.
10
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Siegfried Sassoon
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Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
13
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
15
That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck‘s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
16
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
17
An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.
18
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
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You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
20
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
21
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
22
I’m blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.
23
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.
24
Baseball has been very good to me.
Roberto Clemente
25
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.
26
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
27
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
St. Jerome
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The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
29
People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I’m like, ‘Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That’s it.’ There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
30
Future’s like an older brother to me, and Thug‘s more like a brother my age.
31
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
32
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell
33
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
34
I myself never feel that I’m sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
Coco Lee
35
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
36
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
37
I’m not trying to be different. To me, I’m just being myself.
38
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
39
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
Chai Jing
40
The devil made me do it.
41
When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.
42
You can love me or you can hate me.
43
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.
44
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
45
Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
46
Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
47
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
48
Somebody called me a homophobe. I’m not homophobic.
49
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
50
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
51
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
52
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible meansexcept by getting off his back.
53
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank
54
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
55
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
56
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
57
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
58
I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.
59
I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
60
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
61
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston
62
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
63
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
64
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Carl Orff
65
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.
66
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, ‘someone who had wonderful style.’ He was half Samoan-German, half New Zealander, and their first date was to a Fleetwood Mac concert, which I love the thought of.
67
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
68
A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
Allegra Versace
69
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
70
I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
71
I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
72
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
73
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
74
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
75
For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.
Kenneth Noland
76
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.
77
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
78
To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
79
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
80
I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like, really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
81
As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.
82
Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
83
Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren’t there in my tough times.
84
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
85
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
86
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
87
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
88
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
89
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
90
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
91
I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
92
I ain’t follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It’s just grindin’, ya feel me? You just gotta grind.
93
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
95
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
97
I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.
98
I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
100
Success doesn’t motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.
101
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
102
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
103
I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
104
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
105
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
106
It is important for me to carve out time in my schedule to spend quality time with my family.
107
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
108
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.
109
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
110
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
111
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
112
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
113
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
114
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover‘s quarrel with the world.
115
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
116
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen
117
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
118
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
119
For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.
120
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
121
‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
Ronnie Hawkins
122
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
123
I’m usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, ‘Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It’s amazing,’ I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for ‘Stranger Things,’ I couldn’t resist. I had to watch it.
124
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
125
I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
126
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
127
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
Josie Loren
128
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
129
What keeps me going is goals.
130
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving – she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral.
131
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
132
Being in water makes me relax instantly.
133
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
134
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
135
Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.
136
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
137
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
138
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
139
I guess maybe there is two sides of me – the nice guy and then the beast within.
140
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
141
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
142
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
143
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
144
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
145
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
146
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
149
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
150
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
151
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’
152
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
153
I can’t help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
154
True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
155
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
156
I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
157
To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
158
Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.
159
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
160
Being handsome wasn’t much of a burden. It worked for me.
161
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image‘s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
162
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.
163
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
164
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John Donne
165
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
166
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
167
I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
168
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
169
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I’m living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you’re a woman.
170
I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
171
Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski
172
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
173
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
174
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
175
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
176
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
179
So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.
180
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
181
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
182
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
183
I’m like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won’t bother you unless you poke a stick at me.
184
For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.
185
I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?
186
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
187
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
188
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
189
My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
190
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor
191
I feel like people are expecting me to fail; therefore, I expect myself to win.
192
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
193
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
194
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Kaiser Wilhelm
195
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
196
I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!
197
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
198
If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
199
My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
200
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
201
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
202
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
203
I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
204
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
205
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
206
When I was growing up, my parents told me, ‘Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.’ I tell my daughters, ‘Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.’
207
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
208
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
209
Resting for me is fitness training.
210
I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
211
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
212
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
213
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
214
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
215
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
216
As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
217
I have Chinese blood in me… I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
218
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
219
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
220
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
221
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
222
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
223
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
224
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
Tadashi Shoji
225
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
226
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
227
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
228
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey
229
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock
230
First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
231
I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
232
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
233
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
234
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‘walking.’
235
For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
236
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
237
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
238
If you behind me, I’m not going to look back and try and figure out what you’re doing behind me.
Future
239
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
240
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn’t worth it.
241
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
242
I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.
243
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
244
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
245
Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
Future
246
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
247
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
Billy Idol
248
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
249
You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
250
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
251
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish
252
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
253
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
254
My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
255
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.
256
Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
257
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
258
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
259
Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.
260
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
261
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
262
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
263
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
264
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
265
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
266
Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.
267
I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.
Fridtjof Nansen
268
What was freely given to me, I freely give.
269
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
270
You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
271
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
272
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
273
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
274
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
275
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
276
Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
277
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
278
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
279
My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
280
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
281
My parents couldn’t give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I’ve definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.
282
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
283
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
284
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
285
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
286
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart
287
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
288
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
289
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
290
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
291
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
292
When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
293
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
294
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
295
Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!
Babe Ruth
296
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
297
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
298
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
299
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
300
I don’t have to be what you want me to be.
301
For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
302
My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I’ll be where God wants me to be.
303
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
304
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
305
Include me out.
306
It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
Haley Reinhart
307
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
308
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
309
I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there’s a movie where you see me on the phone, it’s not my hands.
310
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
311
I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
312
To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
313
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
314
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.
315
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Diogenes
316
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’
317
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
318
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
319
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
320
My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
321
They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
322
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
Dwight L. Moody
323
My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
324
Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that’s about it, honestly.
325
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
326
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
327
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
328
I have two hands: one for me, one for other people.
329
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
330
I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
331
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
332
I’m like a ‘comeback kid‘ – you can’t keep me down for long!
333
Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
334
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
335
I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.
336
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
337
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
338
I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.
339
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
340
There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
341
Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.
342
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
343
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
344
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
345
Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
Zack Steffen
346
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
347
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
348
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Hakeem Olajuwon
349
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
350
I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao
351
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
352
I schedule ‘me’ time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.
353
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
354
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
355
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.
356
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
357
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’
Claude Pepper
358
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
359
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
360
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
361
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
362
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
363
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
364
Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
365
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
366
People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
367
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
368
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
369
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
370
The artist in me cries out for design.
371
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
372
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
373
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
374
I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.
375
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
376
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see.
377
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
378
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
379
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
380
People just see the shine. They don’t see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks… I ain’t finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.
Kodak Black
381
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
382
I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.
383
Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
384
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
385
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
386
The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
387
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
388
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
389
I’m a blessing to whoever gets to really know me.
390
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
391
Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
392
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
393
The best part is still ahead of me – I haven‘t experienced my ‘good old days‘ yet.
Luther Vandross
394
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
395
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
396
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
397
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
398
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
399
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
400
Give me love and work – these two only.
401
Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
402
Things don’t really impress me. Memories impress me. It’s not the toys, it’s the people.
403
So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
404
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
405
For me, cooking is an extension of love.
Hedda Sterne
406
A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.
407
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
408
I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.
409
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
410
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
411
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
412
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
Diogenes
413
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
414
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs… it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.
Till Lindemann
415
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
416
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
417
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
418
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
419
I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
420
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.
Rita Hayworth
421
I’m emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
422
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
423
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.
424
I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.
425
When ‘Top Gun’ came out, my sisters were like, ‘Oh, my God, ‘Top Gun!’ Tom Cruise!’ And I very confidently said, ‘I’m going to marry him one day.’ It wasn’t like, ‘How do I get to Tom Cruise?’ It was just, ‘I think I’m going to marry him. Why not? He’ll like me. I’m fun.’
426
Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
427
My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
428
I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
429
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
430
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
431
For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
432
Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
433
I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
434
I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me!
435
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
436
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
437
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
Joe DiMaggio
438
Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
439
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II
440
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
Hafez
441
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
442
Every moment is memorable to me.
Suga
443
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
444
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
Terence
445
All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
446
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
447
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
448
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
449
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
450
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
451
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
452
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
453
I’d like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe DiMaggio
454
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
455
Football’s a part of me. If I’m not playing, then I’m not me.
456
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
457
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
458
I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
459
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
460
Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
461
Everything I do references something that influenced me.
462
Another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.
Stan Laurel
463
If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
464
If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
465
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
466
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
467
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
468
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Anselm Kiefer
469
I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
470
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
471
My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
472
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
473
If you didn’t want to believe in me, that’s OK, because I’ll make a believer out of you.
474
There’s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I’m that icon.
475
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
476
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
477
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
478
It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
479
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
480
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
481
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin
482
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
483
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I’m totally fine with that being me.
484
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
485
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
486
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
Al Unser
487
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
488
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.
489
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
490
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
491
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
492
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
493
A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don’t apply in the City than they do for you and me.
494
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
495
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
496
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
497
When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
498
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
499
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
500
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
501
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
502
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
503
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
504
Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
505
I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
506
Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.
507
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
508
When I’m in the starting gate, it’s just me and the hill.
509
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
510
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
511
I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.
512
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
513
You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
514
Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.
515
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
516
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau
517
If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.
518
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
519
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
520
The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
521
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
522
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
523
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
524
I’m not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
525
Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.
526
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
527
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
528
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
529
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
530
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
531
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
532
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro
533
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
534
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
535
I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.
536
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.
537
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
538
The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
539
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
540
I may be crazy, but that don’t make me wrong.
541
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
542
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
543
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem
544
I don’t let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that’s all that matters to me.
545
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
546
Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.
547
God has entrusted me with myself.
548
The workshop to me always means great atmosphere, working, smell of wood, dust and, at the end of the day, you’ve created something.
549
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
550
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
551
My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you’re mad don’t do something wrong because you’re mad.
552
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
553
People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
554
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
555
To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
556
To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.
557
She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.
558
You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me… I’m dripping sauce.
Future
559
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I’m in a good mood – don’t meet me in a bad mood.
560
When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
561
Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
562
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
563
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
564
Personality for me is the strongest statement.
565
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
566
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
567
If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
Arthur Ashe
568
To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one’s confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!
569
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
570
I don’t give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?
571
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen
572
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
573
I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
574
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
575
This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
576
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
577
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
578
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
579
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
James Welch
580
I wish they would only take me as I am.
581
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
582
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
583
So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
584
I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
Dusty Baker
585
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
586
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
587
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
588
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz
589
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
590
I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.
591
Once you label me you negate me.
592
Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.
593
I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
594
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
595
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Gregor Mendel
596
I’m an unlucky charm… don’t go anywhere with me.
597
I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
598
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh
599
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
600
Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
601
Being cool, having a ‘cool’ energy is just not attractive to me.
602
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Emily Carr
603
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
604
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
Bruce Lee
605
When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was… an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.
606
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
607
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
608
Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
609
I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
610
People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
611
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
612
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
613
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
614
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
615
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
616
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Scipio Africanus
617
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
618
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
619
Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.
620
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Alan Turing
621
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
622
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
623
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
624
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language… it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
Tom Wlaschiha
625
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
626
No damn man kills me and lives.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
627
My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.
628
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
629
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
630
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
631
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.
632
You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
633
I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
634
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
St. Jerome
635
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
636
To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.
637
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
638
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
639
My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.
640
I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t even care what happens to me.
641
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.
642
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
643
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects.
644
I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.
645
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
646
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
647
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
648
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.
649
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
650
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.