Personal Quotes

When you're a French woman and you have a lot of Latin blood, you can be very dramatic. It definitely makes your personal life exciting - and exhausting.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

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

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.