Anthony Trollope Quotes

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the ones that become really meaningful to a lot of other people.

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

It is impossible to state in words how much this team means to me, how much Hulu means to me.

I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.