On My Own Quotes

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And if I decide to convert I will lose the right to fight.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.