As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome. Why did I not ever wear jean… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
“All of your emotions are going to try to fuck you up. They are there to try to confuse you, so know… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors,… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can… — Michael Giacchino 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
But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
“Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I was never apposed or sought out nudity, but it was necessary in the Where the Truth Lies. If they didn't have… — Rachel Blanchard Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points -… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, 'Okay, you like to clean or be… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image