Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.
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Related My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA My teeth are crooked, my nose is broken. I've never thought of myself as beautiful JESSICA LANGE You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never... JOSEPH SMITH JR. Some of my teeth are numb and there are still parts of my face that are numb. I've never had pain li... CHRISTI NARDOZZI I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard bec... SHANNON L. ALDER I am shocked by the decision of the ITF, they have been very strict and I will no doubt appeal. I ha... KAROL BECK Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who... PATRICIA C. WREDE I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. 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HELENA BONHAM CARTER Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 [God desires] not that He may say to them... GEORGE MACDONALD Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and ha... JOSEPH SMITH, JR. The man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to hav... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, w... CHARLES DICKENS Do I have lipstick on my teeth? UMA THURMAN I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. JOSHUA WAITZKIN If I’d been asked to make a list of what I could do without, I’d never have managed it. But by p... J.P. DELANEY I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The f... ENRICO CARUSO There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal priva... KARRINE STEFFANS I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody... EARTHA KITT I never in my life have been doping and never will. KAROL BECK ...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made m... PHILIP PULLMAN "Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peop... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the peopl... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, o... HERMAN MELVILLE Praise be unto debt,for without her there will not have been a single rich person in life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about rega... REX STOUT J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will n... KHALED HOSSEINI I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that fee... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have wr... MICHAEL JACKSON I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right pa... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER This is the team that took me when probably no one else was interested. Maybe there were other teams... 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It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. KURT VONNEGUT JR. Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around i... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Find a subject you care about and which you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring... KURT VONNEGUT JR. I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written. KURT VONNEGUT JR. Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but... KURT VONNEGUT JR. There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of ti... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ... KURT VONNEGUT JR. We are what we imagine ourselves to be. KURT VONNEGUT JR. If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What ca... KURT VONNEGUT JR. High School is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. KURT VONNEGUT JR. How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. KURT VONNEGUT JR. The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi... KURT VONNEGUT, JR. As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god. KURT VONNEGUT JR. Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be rea... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe... KURT VONNEGUT, JR. Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that? KURT VONNEGUT JR. Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college. KURT VONNEGUT JR. Men want a lot of pals—and they don’t want people to get mad at them. KURT VONNEGUT JR. One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poe... KURT VONNEGUT JR. My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ... KURT VONNEGUT Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been... KURT VONNEGUT If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y... KURT VONNEGUT There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. KURT VONNEGUT I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. KURT VONNEGUT I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know... KURT VONNEGUT If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. KURT VONNEGUT Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic... KURT VONNEGUT What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin... KURT VONNEGUT Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ... KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h... KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an... KURT VONNEGUT I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin... KURT VONNEGUT Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ... KURT VONNEGUT What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c... KURT VONNEGUT The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled... KURT VONNEGUT Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe... KURT VONNEGUT ... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc... KURT VONNEGUT The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi... KURT VONNEGUT We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend. KURT VONNEGUT I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver... KURT VONNEGUT I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o... KURT VONNEGUT We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. KURT VONNEGUT Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo... KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have... KURT VONNEGUT There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste... KURT VONNEGUT There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. KURT VONNEGUT I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par... KURT VONNEGUT Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. KURT VONNEGUT Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu... KURT VONNEGUT There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser... KURT VONNEGUT Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but... KURT VONNEGUT It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. KURT VONNEGUT We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol... KURT VONNEGUT Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. KURT VONNEGUT Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag... KURT VONNEGUT Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem... KURT VONNEGUT I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f... KURT VONNEGUT True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr... KURT VONNEGUT What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f... KURT VONNEGUT Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since... KURT VONNEGUT