Misattributed
Source: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.
“I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.”
“Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
“My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.”
Fresh Air interview (February 4, 2002)
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Quotes from 'Notes from 1969', Ellsworth Kelly; as quoted in the exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 13 December
1969 - 1980
Bouguereau (1895); Attributed in: Jefferson C. Harrison (1986) French paintings from the Chrysler Museum. Chrysler Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.). p.45.
“I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
First Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)
"Egoism" as quoted by Amy Lowell, "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917)
