Own Quotes

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

I wish I hated my own sin as much as I hate everyone else's.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close. So I think the Vimeo thing, because it's pay to download, that helps

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.