On My Own Quotes

I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

Recently, I kind of found that if I just step into my own skin and relax and just walk like I'm just walking down the street, it always looks better than if you try too many cool moves.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.