Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Albert Schweitzer

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

David Levithan

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Beyonce Knowles

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Erich Fromm

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Flannery O'Connor

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Giorgio Armani

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Barry Manilow

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Bernard Arnault

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Bill Bruford

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Bobbie Davis

That's the kind of style I like - up-tempo and fast.

Maureen Shea

I was told to see what she had, make adjustments, and be aggressive. That's my style anyway.

Michael Vick

I think I could play with anybody. It's all if they could play with me. He would have to understand my style of play and what I do. And if he can do that, he can be here. Other than that, this is my team.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Nick Cave

For me, what we didn't want was the American-style hero,