#ego

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#almost #although #anything #been #before

That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#fall #follows #gospel #i #into

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#big #ego #enjoy #got #how

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#categories #darwin #evidence #evolution #fact

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#anyone #bit #candy #category #eye

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #done #ego #fun #good

I fed my ego, but not my soul. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#fed #i #my soul #soul

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#ego #got #i #like #looks

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #budget #care #category #discretionary

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#bit #ego #excited #get #i