On My Own Quotes

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

I know how to separate my own laundry.

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.