#elf

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#itself #just #looking #physicist #way

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#also #break #fools #full #himself

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

I amused myself playing with the journalists. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#i #journalists #myself #playing

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#i #maybe #myself #such #thing

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. ↗

— Eminem

#anything #before #best #could #get

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. ↗

— Eminem

#ever #i #little #maybe #me

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough. ↗

— Manute Bol

#jail #kind #like #make #me

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. ↗

— Michael Ende

#great #great silence #her #herself #listen