#megalomania

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#being #day #egotistical #few #fulfilling

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything. ↗

— Salman Khan

#audience #hate #i #into #khan

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#could #enslaved #got #how #i

Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#fun #humor #megalomania #world-domination #humor

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#leadership #lord #megalomania #sci-fi #science-fiction

The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals. If looks alone could make generals, Durrell would have been a cinch. He was built lean and slim and dark, like a Doberman. A man of breeding and refrigerated intelligence, he ordered his life like a table of logarithms. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#generals #megalomania #intelligence

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. ↗

— Bono

#anything #could #dad #i #made

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#i can #megalomaniac #mind #put