“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Source: Lord of Shadows
“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.”
Enrique Vila-Matas (1948) Spanish writer
Enrique Vila-Matas (2011) Never Any End to Paris, Translated by Anne McLean. p. 45
The narrator quoting his mother.
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Clark Gable (1901–1960) American actor
Quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, and John Walker, p. 181, and The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV idols (2004) by James Robert Parish, p. 67
Context: All this "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married, OK!, 2012-01-12 http://www.okmagazine.com/news/madonna-misses-certain-things-about-being-married,
“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn?”
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Betrayals
“I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.”
Sachin Tendulkar (1973) A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in the world
Sachin cannot play the helicopter shot like Dhoni, hit sixes like Sehwag, play an innings like Dravid or be a captain like Ganguly. But no one can be as good as him in what he does. http://www.storypick.com/quotes-by-tendulkar/
Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964) writer
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
Context: I'm wondering how the new crop of teens and twentysomethings became so afraid of emotion and the expression thereof.* Did their parents teach them? Did they learn it somewhere else? Is this a spontaneous cultural phenomenon? Are they afraid of appearing weak? Is this capitalism streamlining the human psyche to be more useful by eliminating anything that might hamper productivity? Is it a sort of conformism? I don't know, but I could go the rest of my life and never again hear anyone whine about someone else being "emo," and it would be a Very Good Thing.