Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ... THOMAS MERTON It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more ... THOMAS MERTON They kept telling me I wasn't worth as much as I thought I was. After a while, that affects your mot... DOMINICK GUINN I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ... STEPHEN FRY I am more comfortable in my dreams than I am in reality. /USER/I/MY_QUOTES/1 I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. PETER DINKLAGE My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more resp... CLIFTON FADIMAN Just hanging out and spending time with my girlfriend would be enough for me, if she wants to get me... BRANDON FRYE Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovere... CRISS JAMI I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could jus... AMY REED It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understan... JENNIFER LOPEZ I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. RUDOLPH VALENTINO There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and Geor... KEITH HARING My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. JEANETTE WINTERSON I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so ... VINCENT VAN GOGH It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philo... APOLO OHNO I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I sa... AYN RAND It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereb... R.C. SPROUL I didn't know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was tra... LIONEL SUGGS For me, beauty is more about prevention than anything. Especially now that I've hit 30, it's... JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that peop... NICOLA STURGEON I need to be with someone who is better than i am. But the more relationships it takes to find them,... LUCAS STORRS If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day n... ROBBIE FOWLER i am not good enough for you
i am not pretty enough to fit your expectations
i am not the "it girl" ... G/C I have lived for many minutes, hours and days
I have lived in so many different ways,
Do not judge m... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me... ALEX CAMPBELL I thought I was going to win, and I did not win. There is always next year. I have more people suppo... BEN GREENBERG The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me f... JOSé RIZAL I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am grateful for what I went through because it was temporary. But it also showed me more than I th... CYNDEE WILLIAMS I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the... EMILY BRONTë I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... 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PETER NYGARD I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my ... HARUKI MURAKAMI My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that prote... KAHLIL GIBRAN I am thinking that I don't want this to happen. I don't want to die. I don't want my friends to die.... JOHN GREEN In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, t... DANIEL TAMMET At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I a... GERALDINE BROOKS As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, th... GEORGE PAPANDREOU I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my... SOCRATES It is OK for me to hold out for what I want. It is OK for me to find a way to make it happen. As lon... JAN DENISE I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Hea... BRIGHAM YOUNG Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that... VINCENT VAN GOGH I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Al... EMRAAN HASHMI I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and do... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha... VANESSA LACHEY Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enoug... ANN VOSKAMP I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have b... HERMANN HESSE In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity ... RAVI SHANKAR I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving �... GIOVANNI PAPINI I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a conformist. My values and beliefs are part of my foundatio... BONNIE ZACKSON KOURY What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. I... OLEG CASSINI Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to ... ASHTON KUTCHER it felt increasingly, as I became more whole, that I had made it all up, and that I was a phoney. I ... CAROLYN BRAMHALL You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every o... CHLOE NEILL I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social positio... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE We are just two lost souls looking for someone to love and understand us for who we really are at th... KAREN KOSTYLA I am so immensely proud to be representing my country at the Athens Olympic Games, that's more than ... CRAIG STEVENS Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who wer... DOROTHY ALLISON Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it se... SOURCE UNKNOWN I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up wit... SOURCE UNKNOWN The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fa... GEORGE SHEEHAN With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whate... JASON GEDRICK I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n... MEISTER ECKHART Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have b... LATIKA TEOTIA My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to he... KELLY CLARKSON The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my lif... KURT VONNEGUT I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that... ANNE PERRY I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they ca... CHARLES DICKENS I am all for it. I think it does make my job a lot easier. I have been around long enough; 20 points... RAY ALLEN You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever eno... MARY MACLANE I've always been afraid that someone would steal my identity some day and be more successful at bein... NEIL LECKMAN I am writing in despair. I am cursing the day of my birth just like Job. I would have wished a quick... GAO ZHAN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Mentally I am so fresh and hungry. I am the heaviest I have been in my entire life, and I am really ... ANT STOTT Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the crit... VINCENT VAN GOGH I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that not... ADA LOVELACE He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre, ... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and t... DIANE LANE I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. ... TERRY GROSS I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of realit... JOHN FANTE I might not have been mature enough to handle it. I think I'm a lot more focused now and that helps ... JASON JACOBS In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen... NEALE DONALD WALSCH I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the si... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids ... PICO IYER What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless.... JOHN MCAFEE More people are asking me to come and sing for them, so obviously I am getting more work. But apart ... ARIJIT SINGH To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life,... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH
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MARY SHELLEY The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c... MARY SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. MARY SHELLEY The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. MARY SHELLEY I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. MARY SHELLEY I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen... MARY SHELLEY Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent o... MARY SHELLEY And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ... MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea... MARY SHELLEY What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my mid... MARY SHELLEY Elegance is inferior to virtue. MARY SHELLEY It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their mind... MARY SHELLEY There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces. RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,... RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now. RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the... RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind. RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need. RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I... RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that. RACHEL SHELLEY I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ... SHELLEY HENNIG I was so cold the other day, I almost got married. SHELLEY WINTERS In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th... SHELLEY WINTERS I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. SHELLEY WINTERS I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza... SHELLEY HENNIG Soul meets soul on lovers lips. PERCY SHELLEY It was so cold I almost got married. SHELLEY WINTERS Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths. SHELLEY BOVEY Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. SHELLEY WINTERS If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. SHELLEY LONG He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh... GEORGE SHELLEY I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. SHELLEY HENNIG I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ... SHELLEY BERKLEY Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y... SHELLEY DUVALL People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I... SHELLEY HENNIG We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can. SHELLEY DUVALL I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. SHELLEY FABARES The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d... SHELLEY BERMAN And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ... SHELLEY DUVALL Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But... SHELLEY DUVALL Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. SHELLEY DUVALL While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert... KEVIN SHELLEY Where do you go to get anorexia? SHELLEY WINTERS Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. BRUCE SHELLEY a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not. BRUCE SHELLEY My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made, BRUCE SHELLEY They just want to have the action. BRUCE SHELLEY We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m... BRUCE SHELLEY I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo... BRUCE SHELLEY We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an... BRUCE SHELLEY The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever. BRUCE SHELLEY We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment... BRUCE SHELLEY We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for... BRUCE SHELLEY I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w... SHELLEY BERKLEY Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. SHELLEY DUVALL