Themselves Quotes

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.