On My Own Quotes

If you don't like my book, write your own.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

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

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

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.

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

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.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

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

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

All these stipulations, I'm surprised [David Haye ] didn't ask me to carry him to that seat. The demands are unbelievable, my demands were let me pick my own gloves.

I'm totally monogamous when I'm in a relationship, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't sleep around. So when I'm not with someone, I'm really on my own.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Mind your own business.

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Sometimes I look at my own movies