Vanity Quotes

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Like
  • English

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Better
  • Vanity
  • Slow

• Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Food
  • Health

• Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • School
  • Career

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Words
  • Day

• The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Tree
  • Author

• When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I’m a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

  

  Lee Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Up

• My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Law
  • Sister

• I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.

  

  Emiliano Salinas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest, and then the game on the line, they miss. So you're doing all that for no reason.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Game
  • Mad

• When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Kind
  • Universe
  • Humility

• That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

  

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