Itself Quotes

2191 quotes by 1729 authors

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us. — Waylon Jennings
Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of… — Bob Graham
As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. — David Friedman
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. — Elizabeth Janeway
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of… — Anthony Holden
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. — Robyn Davidson
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. — Alice Foote MacDougall
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only… — Albert J. Nock
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects,… — Jonathan Miller
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself. — Branford Marsalis
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. — Jack London
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's… — Armistead Maupin
The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to… — Scott McCallum
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but… — Jeremy Northam
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world… — Dwight Yoakam
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' — Charles Francis Richter
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I… — Zinedine Zidane
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going… — Robert Redford
The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting… — Peter Ueberroth

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