Self Proclaimed Greatness Quotes & Sayings

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand. — Madame De Stael

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life. — Peter Cameron

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach. — LeBron James

I'd kill for 'somewhat frosty.' — Conan O'Brien

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

Ambition is greed without makeup. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something. — Kapil Dev

If you don't like nice people, try the ones who aren't nice, and see how you like that! — F Scott Fitzgerald

Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes. — Emma McLaughlin

In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they tried the same thing in the 60s it instantly collapsed because people simply laughed at it so they couldn't do it. Even a dictatorship can't do everything it wants. It's got to have some degree of popular support. — Noam Chomsky