#elf

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#always #being #great #great thing #recreating

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have. ↗

— Patti Smith

#against #discipline #energies #first #found

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything. ↗

— Patti Smith

#called #godmother #i #me #myself

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. ↗

— Robert Smith

#every #fashion #grow #hair #i

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. ↗

— Robert Smith

#even #funnier #got #honestly #i

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. ↗

— Robert Smith

#cry #else #god #i #inside

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#friends #i #inspiring #kids #myself

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#does #exist #institutions #itself #just

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done. ↗

— Susan Smith

#done #ever #forgive #i #myself

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #makes #man #small #up