Book Quote by Patty Duke

Every Saturday I read sentences in SPIEGEL that lack clarity.

— Horst Seehofer

“Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a…

— Tim Frick

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I…

— Philip Roth

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become…

— Virginia Woolf

It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about…

— Gavin Rossdale

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued…

— Otto Rank

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many…

— Peter Weir

What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all…

— Esther Earl

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

— Ellen Goodman

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump…

— Alec Baldwin

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being…

— Denis Dutton