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- I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind…
- An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that…
- If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just…
- I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and…
- Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm…
- I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if…
- I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why…
- She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think…
- Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an…
- We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed…
- Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody…
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood