On My Own Quotes

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

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.

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!