Egotistic People Quotes & Sayings

He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy. — Sarah Vowell

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. — Brian Eno

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people. — Will Cuppy

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. — Ross Perot

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. — Emile M. Cioran

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course. — Tara Lipinski

Delivered to the Byte Shop within thirty days, when the payment for the parts would come due. All available hands were enlisted: Jobs and Wozniak, plus Daniel Kottke, his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes (who had broken away from the cult she'd joined), and Jobs's pregnant sister, Patty. Her vacated bedroom as well as the kitchen table and garage were commandeered as work space. Holmes, — Walter Isaacson

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. — Jerry Saltz

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. — Liam Neeson

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money. — Martin O'Malley

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! — Bram Stoker

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc De Clapiers

Correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct grammar. Hundreds of rules for itsy-bitsy people. No one could remember all that stuff and concentrate on what he was trying to write about. It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies. Gentlemen and ladies had good table manners and spoke and wrote grammatically. It was what identified one with the upper classes. In Montana, however, it didn't have this effect at all. It identified one, instead, as a stuck-up Eastern ass. — Robert M. Pirsig

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. — Robert Kiyosaki

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time? — Jonathan Tropper