Myselfget Quotes & Sayings

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell

( ... ) sensation I've never felt before, bites of cold, hard steel that definitely didn't come with the birthday package. He's pierced. Holy shit. it's always the quiet ones, isn't it? — C.M. Stunich

And if it gets you killed?" She shrugged and looked away. "No one lives forever. — Julie Kagawa

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. — Jasper Johns

I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude. — Andy Cohen

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game. — Dwyane Wade

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. — Mark Stevens

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so. — Erica Jong

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless. — Michael Flynn

If we are ever to meet once more shall we sing together and tell our tales? May all things good and wonderful be ever at your feet. May the bounty of fortune be ever at your feet. May the stars protect you by day and the moon by night. — Kaoru Mori

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal. — Nate Berkus

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better. — Yasmina Khadra

In fact, like other personality traits, personal happiness appears to be strongly influenced by our genes. Studies of identical and fraternal twins show that identical twins are significantly more likely to exhibit the same level of happiness than are fraternal twins or other siblings. Behavior geneticists have used these studies to estimate just how much genes matter, and their best guess is that long-term happiness depends 50 percent on a person's genetic set point, 10 percent on their circumstances (e.g., where they live, how rich they are, how healthy they are), and 40 percent on what they choose to think and do.31 — Nicholas A. Christakis

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one. — Nick Hornby

In stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes ... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation ... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation. — Elizabeth Gilbert