Itself Quotes
- Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein
- Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself. — Bobby Locke
- The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body. — George Herbert Mead
- The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay… — Nicholas Mosley
- Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are… — Daniel Burnham
- Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. — Lord Byron
- Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. — Liz Smith
- If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. — Dave Eggers
- Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself. — Larry Williams
- It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect… — Andrew Cohen
- The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an… — Laura Riding
- Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding
- Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself. — Fatos Nano
- We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore.… — Ben Gibbard
- When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five-… — Tibor Benedek
- There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as… — Dan Butler
- I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that… — Ben Quayle
- What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers