I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she… — James McBride Copy Share Image
You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something… — Bindu Envy In Women Copy Share Image
I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life… — Bob Carlisle Copy Share Image
I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened.… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way.… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's.… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count. — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
