Idea Quote by Zadie Smith Download Open image “I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.” — Zadie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idea Ideas Irrational Nostalgic Personhood Worry
Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Just like any other human being is concerned about his or her personal life, I also need to think about my personal life. — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it. — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
When I was living an almost mechanical lifestyle as an idol, I was constantly wrapped up in thoughts about who I was. That's when… — Park Hyung-sik Copy Share Image
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
“You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do,… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
