On My Own Quotes

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.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

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

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.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

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

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

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

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.

I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.