I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I guess other people's compliments motivate you.

I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.

I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.

One of the greatest compliments anyone could ever give a director is, 'Everybody was in the same show.' That's something I think about constantly.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

Collaboration is the best way to work. Its only way to work really. Everyones there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.