On My Own Quotes

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

I'm fortunate to have had my own level of success. My joys in life are I've got three little kids, and I got to buy a house that I really like, and everyone should have that.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

My job is my own only land.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?

After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

Being celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you.

I find a lot of comfort and peace just being outdoors. Whether on a beach or on a path near our house, I would walk for an hour or two, just alone with my own head to think things through.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.