Self-Deprecating Sayings

161 sayings found from the Modern era from 161 authors

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

— Ray Bradbury N/A
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I'm not a drug user. I'm a drug researcher. I experiment on myself.

— Philip K. Dick N/A
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I am an old lady. I’m going to die soon. I want to say what I think.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 2014
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I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1937
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When I was a child I was too old for my age and now I am an old man I am too young for my age.

— C.S. Lewis 1959
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I think I have a lot of mischief in me.

— Roald Dahl 1983
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I never intended to become an illustrator or a writer. I was an artist. I intended to become a great American artist.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1980s
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One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows.

— Agatha Christie 1977
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My dear Watson, you were in my mind, just as I was in yours.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1915
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I am not a man, I am a river.

— Alexandre Dumas Mid-19th century
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I was not a Negro. I was a Black man. And my country is not a country. It is a state of mind.

— James Baldwin 1970s
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It seems to me that if I am to sustain myself as a writer, I must be given the right to write as I see fit.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1928
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I am a poet and I belong to all the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1936
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I use words because I have nothing else.

— Samuel Beckett 1949
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I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but at this time of year the sun sets so fast that I cannot keep up with it.

— Claude Monet 1890
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I am a very serious man. I am a very serious artist. But I am also a very serious clown.

— Salvador Dali 1960s
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I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.

— Frida Kahlo 1939
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I am a person who is very superficial. I like surfaces.

— Andy Warhol Uncertain
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I believe in God, but not as a old man in the sky. I believe in God as a power, a force, a spirit. And I believe in myself, as part of that power.

— John Lennon 1970s
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The first time I saw myself on TV, I just freaked out.

— Elvis Presley Approx. 1956
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