#Personal Quotes

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“That which is most personal, is most interesting.”

“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.”

“My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.”

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

“Honey, I forgot to duck”

“I don't have too much time for fiction.”

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

“I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.”

“I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.”

“I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“I have had no true friends, only lovers.”

“I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.”

“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”

“There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.”

“When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.”

“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”

“If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.”

“You're in there with me. Personally.”

“I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.”

“I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.”

“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.”

“Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.”

“If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”

“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”

“I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.”

“My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.”

“I haven't been very active in politics.”

“I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.”

“I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.”

“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.”

“I was raised to farm work.”

“It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.”

“As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!”

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”

“If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.”

“I love the sea.”

“Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.”

“Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.”

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

“My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.”

“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”

“If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.”