Me Quotes

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!