Personal Statement

Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or statement:

    “Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)