The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It's funny. When we first started hanging out I didn't want Ashley to think I was a pig, so I was careful… — Natasha Friend Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“One-night stands were invented to free men from worrying about the size of their penis. And to free women from worrying about… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble;… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“If the outer mind hungers for status, money, and applause, the inner mind hungers for harmony and connection—those moments when self-consciousness fades… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
![“[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/464/john-stuart-mill-477_consciousness_i-put-the-question-directly-to-myself-su_1931447.png)
