- Beautiful Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, beauty really does come from within, and that may sound cliche, but it's true.
- East Asia
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020