identity

"They have sheets of ham so large that if you bite out the middle, you've saved yourself the price of a poncho."

"The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself."

"None but himself can be his parallel."

"But fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied t…"

"The key to maximizing talents is to put yourself into the zone of stimulation that’s right for you."

"But the temptation to wallow and disport myself in the purple prose of the doting collector is strong, and it will need all my vigilance to resist it."

"“Do not,” Dakkar barked, “juxtapose yourself and myself in any sentence your mouth may form!"

"He who seeks pearls immerses himself in the sea."

"You do an awfully good impression of yourself."

"This movie was made by professionals. Do not attempt any of this behavior yourself."

"Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business."

"So I went down to Verizon, and I got myself a Droid. Don't you ever... ever... applaud an inanimate object again."

"To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it."

"On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematary was appalling when it first came out on to the page."

"One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself."

"So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that."

"My first thesis is that identity is unitary."

"Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity."

"Liberace: Would you like to stay for dinner, Jack?"

"Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant."