“My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.”
Source: Magic Slays
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 5, “Harden” (p. 160)
“My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.”
Source: Magic Slays
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Variant: The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper : Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
Context: To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do — bad or good.
“Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo”
[199710311916.LAA19760@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Repute is never transmitted with certainty; all things that she reports are exaggerated. Even our glory, although it rests on a solid foundation, is greater in name than in fact.”
Numquam ad liquidum fama perducitur; omnia illa tradente maiora sunt vero. Nostra quoque gloria, cum sit ex solido, plus tamen habet nominis quam operis.
IX, 2, 14; translation by John Carew Rolfe
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX
“She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.”
The Immortals: The First Fifty, Manson, Shirley, Rolling Stone, 2004-04-15, Rolling Stone Issue 946 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty,
2010s, North Korea's Race Problem (February 2010)
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004