Merrill Markoe Quotes

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

In general, I can't stand people who always turn a conversation into something about them. I can't stand it when people are too into themselves.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.