On My Own Quotes

For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!)

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own Dynasty range, named after various characters. I find this saves a ton of time - as well as my own hair.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.