On My Own Quotes

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

I need to just find my own peace.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.

I like to think that it looks effortless rather than trying too hard. I'm not necessarily a trend-driven person. I like to kind of do my own thing.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.