#myself

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#based #decision #explanation #give #god

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#chair #change #child #contemplating #different

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' ↗

— Ed Koch

#decided #free #get #god #help

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#disabled #i #myself #think

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#i #myself #never #new #new york

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#along #anybody #because #being #deserve

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#ahead #among #artists #connection #count

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#activity #become #course #desperate #desperation

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#becoming #every #having #i #little