Egomaniacs Quotes

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. ~ Norman Mailer

I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach. ~ Kanye West

How about we play without special abilities?" she suggested. "That'll make it fair for everyone."

Fitz shrugged. "I'm up for the challenge if you are."

"Lame. I vote for The Unstoppable Team Keefe! Or Team Foster-Keefe if you're one of those egomaniacs who needs your name in there. I can share some credit. ~ Shannon Messenger

He'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out ~ Dennis Lehane

It's intriguing to observe so many of the outrageous prophecies, made with such biting satire years ago in the first edition, come into being through the craft of so many self-entitled egomaniacs running a global 'corpornation' for personal interest and professional profit. I had no idea then, as I now know, that I was writing with so much understatement. Honest outrage and political satire are two of the most important weapons that we have to protect infringement against our personal freedoms through oligarchy and to maintain any semblance of humanity in our democracy as our government aggressively privatizes and over-reaches at the expense of those millions whom it has sworn so dishonestly to serve and has utterly abandoned. ~ David B. Lentz

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. ~ Dan Rather

I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists. ~ Rob Corddry

Most of us aren't "egomaniacs," but ego is there at the root of almost every conceivable problem and obstacle, from why we can't win to why we need to win all the time and at the expense of others. From why we don't have what we want to why having what we want doesn't seem to make us feel any better." Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 2-3 ~ Ryan Holladay

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around. ~ Anthony Kiedis

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.' ~ Kanye West

I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw. ~ Harlan Ellison

Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs. ~ Dennis Perrin

His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. ~ James S.A. Corey

Artists are ... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation. ~ Jon Pareles

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

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong. ~ David Brin

We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children. ~ Herman J. Mankiewicz

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn. ~ Jane Smiley

Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum. ~ Joshua Cohen

It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink. ~ Dido Armstrong

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things]. ~ Kanye West

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them. ~ Marina And The Diamonds

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order. ~ Janet Street-Porter

We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard in America and making the city our own. Being 'writers' gave us something to live for and 'going all city' gave us something to strive for; and for some of my friends it was something to die for. ~ Stefano Bloch

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. ~ James Purdy