My Own Quotes

#1. I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Larry Wall

#2. A dread that something bad was waiting for me has followed me most of my life. I have a morbid fear of the dark. I will never close my eyes in the shower. There are parts of my own house I am just beginning to go into.

Ellen Bass

#3. I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness.

Walker Percy

#4. I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

Andrew Bird

#5. Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

Jimmy Buffett

#6. When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Emily Ratajkowski

#7. When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Don DeLillo

#8. 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

Amy Bloom

#9. I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Jeff Kinney

#10. I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

Art Alexakis

#11. Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#12. My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

Amanda Donohoe

#13. Back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.

Jodi Picoult

#14. For all my life," he said, "when someone has said the word 'beautiful', it is your face I have seen. You are my own very definition of beautiful, Tessa Gray.

Cassandra Clare

#15. I don't think it's my responsibility, but I definitely try to create my own projects that are Latin-based with a Latin crew and Latin cast. I try to give all my characters Latin names whenever I can and make sure that they are of Latin heritage. But that does not work with every project.

John Leguizamo

#16. I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Sarah Ruhl

#17. If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Silvio Berlusconi

#18. All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.

J.M. Coetzee

#19. I dance the hardest, laugh the hardest at my own jokes, and make casual reference to my vagina, like it's a car or a chest of drawers.

Lena Dunham

#20. I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. I guess that's why I'm so quiet and such a good whisperer,

Paul Beatty

#21. Just how many soldiers do you think I can fight on my own?" Alice asked.
"As many as necessary," Hatcher said. "I believe in you, Alice."
She felt for the first time that she wanted to kiss him, that she wanted to know what it was like when she chose it. So she did.

Christina Henry

#22. To be on Earth was to be frightened. I was even frightened by the sight of my own hands.

Matt Haig

#23. I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

Blythe Danner

#24. My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My Dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

Mike Huckabee

#25. For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him.

Kristen Reed

#26. When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#27. I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

Lucy Grealy

#28. The music I actually listen to sounds nothing like my own!

Christopher Tin

#29. It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Simone De Beauvoir

#30. I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

Bo Jackson

#31. I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

Robert Downey Jr.

#32. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

Scilla Elworthy

#33. I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

Alan Hollinghurst

#34. I have my own tastes and I have my my own ... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

Regina Spektor

#35. I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Star Jones

#36. I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#37. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

Brad Paisley

#38. I do MMA and things like that, so any chance I get to do my own stunts, I love it.

Justin Lee

#39. i could go if i wanted
share the floorboards with someone
in a place less haunted
but i like it here
and i'm happy to stay in this mess on my own
in this home i have built for myself in my bones

Savannah Brown

#40. As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Shailene Woodley

#41. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn't changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

Douglas Coupland

#42. I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

Emma Bull

#43. My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

Paul Goodman

#44. I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue

Chris Coons

#45. I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

Rafael Nadal

#46. And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

James Lipton

#47. My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

#48. I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Cameron Dokey

#49. I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

Barack Obama

#50. I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Barbra Streisand

#51. My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

Dylan Penn

#52. I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day.

Karina Halle

#53. I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Paula Cole

#54. Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Elliott Abrams

#55. I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.

Jennifer Lynch

#56. Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

Sam Trammell

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

Richard D. James

#58. I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Jane Austen

#59. All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Maral Boyadjian

#60. I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

Stevie Nicks

#61. I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Kristy Swanson

#62. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

Kenzo Tange

#63. I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

Roberto Matta

#64. I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

#65. Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

Karen Marie Moning

#66. I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.

George Jung

#67. I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

Charles Stross

#68. I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

William Golding

#69. I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

Thomas F. Wilson

#70. Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be alone, and I like it. I always have. I like my own company. And I am not the only one who feels this way; a high percentage of the Norwegian population feel as I do.

Per Petterson

#71. Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

Erma Bombeck

#72. Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

Tilda Swinton

#73. With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

Graham Coxon

#74. I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

David Brainerd

#75. Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.

Mitch Albom

#76. After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

Halle Berry

#77. I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic Cooper

#78. I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

Lisa Loeb

#79. I want to be defined by my own essence.

Kathy Bates

#80. I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#81. I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

Scott Kahn

#82. Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.

Anna Akhmatova

#83. Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#84. However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.

Richelle Mead

#85. I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Shirley Maclaine

#86. In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin

#87. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume

#88. I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

Daniel Ellsberg

#89. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Charles Dickens

#90. Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

Miguel De Cervantes

#91. Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

George Sand

#92. 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.

Jack Nicholson

#93. My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

Bode Miller

#94. It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren - and my own fantastic stories to share.

Ransom Riggs

#95. My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.

Teju Cole

#96. One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

Benjamin Stone

#97. I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

Marcus Brigstocke

#98. I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

Tara Brabazon

#99. I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

Ivanka Trump

#100. When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Lilly Singh