Own Quotes

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Fighting at home doesn't add any pressure - they call it "home-field advantage" for good reason. I don't have to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed the night before the fight.

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!

I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.