Me Quotes

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

~ Lucas Grabeel

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

~ Nicholas Hoult

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

~ Fran Lebowitz

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

~ Major Taylor

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

~ Jessica Savitch

The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.

~ Gwen Stefani

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

~ David Cameron

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

~ Barbra Streisand

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

~ Anna Held

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

~ Paula Cole

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

~ Andrew Stanton

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

~ Fred Saberhagen

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

~ Adrien Brody

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

~ Keith Haring

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

~ Taylor Mali

I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.

~ Jessica Steen

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

~ Emily Dickinson

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

~ Natalie Merchant

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

~ Maya Angelou

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

~ Martin Amis

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

~ Lisel Mueller

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

~ Alice Walker

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

~ Edward Hirsch

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

~ Fanny Howe

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

~ Spike Milligan

The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.

~ Rupi Kaur

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

~ J.k. Rowling

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

~ Billy Collins

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

~ Natasha Trethewey

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

~ Viggo Mortensen

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

~ Viggo Mortensen

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

~ Viggo Mortensen

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

~ Margaret Atwood

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

~ Joseph Brodsky

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

~ Dave Grohl

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

~ Omari Hardwick

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

~ Julian Baggini

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

~ Gene Luen Yang