Personal Quotes

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

~ Mitch Kapor

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

~ Penny Marshall

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

~ Ashley Tisdale

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

~ George Washington

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

~ Josh Hartnett

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

~ Luke Wilson

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

~ Robert Gottlieb

My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.

~ Kimberly Schlapman

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

~ George Herman

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

~ Christopher Mccandless

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

~ Georg Simmel

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

~ Martha Mcsally

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

~ Jim Rohn

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

~ Paul J. Meyer

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

~ John Philip Sousa

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

~ Ellen Barkin

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

~ Barry Eisler

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

~ Martha Beck

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

~ Bob Ney

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

~ Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

~ Alan Wilson

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

~ Jalal Talabani

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

~ Bertrand Russell

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

~ Rose Wilder Lane

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

~ Kim Collins