Robert Gould Shaw Quotes

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I don't care what anyone says.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I don't care what people think.

As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.

For those of you who don't know who I am, I don't care.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.

If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.