Myself Quotes

There's a lot of books that I've purchased simply because of the cover design. On the other hand, there's certain books that, even if I'm very curious about the content, I can't bring myself to buy if I really dislike the cover.

~ Adrian Tomine

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

~ Rei Kawakubo

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

~ Rene Russo

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

~ Neill Blomkamp

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

~ Claudia Schiffer

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

~ Dries Van Noten

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

~ Larry Wall

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

~ Ayumi Hamasaki

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

~ Robert Moog

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

~ Kim Kardashian

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

~ Maria Callas

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

~ Sylvester Stallone

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

~ Alec Baldwin

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

~ Michael Douglas

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

~ Sharon Stone

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

~ Edmund White

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

~ Roseanne Barr

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

~ Princess Diana

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

~ Jessica Valenti

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

~ Linda Mccartney

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

~ Michelle Shocked

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

~ Tichina Arnold

I trust no one, not even myself.

~ Joseph Stalin

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

~ Carrie Fisher

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

~ Cher

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

~ Miguel Cotto

Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.

~ David Harewood

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

~ Rowan Williams

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

~ Isabelle Adjani

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

~ Michelle Pfeiffer

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

~ Rush Limbaugh

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

~ Yoko Ono

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

~ Lord Byron

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

~ Claire Danes

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

~ Mary J. Blige

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

~ Mary J. Blige

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed.

~ Hugh Grant