On My Own Quotes

I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

My mind is my own church.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.