Top 100 On My Own Quotes
#1. There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.
Phil Niekro
#2. I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Anthony Hopkins
#3. Sorry Pa, I managed to finally say, choking on my own words. It was the hardest apology I have ever made in my life.
I truly meant it. But I had no words left to convey its depth.
Preeti Shenoy
#4. His head lowered as he brushed his nose against hers. "Tell me to stop. Please, Lexi, because I can no' do it on my own."
She put her hands on each side of his face. "Don't ever stop."
He issued a groan before he took her mouth again.
Donna Grant
#5. Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
#6. No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness
happiness on my own terms.
Anna Bayes
#7. I have played cricket on my own terms.
Kapil Dev
#8. I've been applying makeup long enough to feel good doing it on my own, but I cannot do my hair to save my life. When left to my own devices, if I have to go to an event, I do a slicked bun. Otherwise, I just try to wear a hat, put it in a ponytail, or do a side braid - something easy.
Kourtney Kardashian
#9. So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.
Frederick Lenz
#10. I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It bed and breakfast.
Scroobius Pip
#11. Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.
Patricia McCormick
#12. Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
Ali Larter
#13. Someone wanted to choke me to death on my own hair?
K.J. Charles
#14. After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
#15. I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.
Sarah Steele
#16. I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
Lauren Oliver
#17. I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr
#18. I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#19. I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.
Mary J. Blige
#20. Lord God ... use me as Your instrument
but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
Martin Luther
#21. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
Robyn Davidson
#22. I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.
V. Bozeman
#23. When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.
Matisyahu
#24. I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
Travis Tritt
#25. I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
Maury Yeston
#26. Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
Jill Abramson
#27. I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
#28. For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.
Tinashe
#29. I'm happy - I moved into my new house, which is the first time I've owned a home on my own. It's a big step, and my brother lives with me - I'm so happy about that.
Khloe Kardashian
#30. I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
Xavier Becerra
#31. Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.
CM Punk
#32. Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.
Markus Zusak
#33. This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.
Herman Cain
#34. Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
Steve Buscemi
#36. I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
George H. W. Bush
#37. School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.
Shannon Tweed
#38. I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.
Matt Bomer
#39. i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire
Rupi Kaur
#40. I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!
Christopher Titus
#41. I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
Emma Roberts
#42. I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.
Cher Lloyd
#43. 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.
Max Brooks
#44. I was still a nerd in some ways, but I'd be that nerd on my own terms. Not to please anyone else. Not to be anyone else.
Bijou Hunter
#45. I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but when I put up a picture of myself shirtless, it does get a little crazy.
Shemar Moore
#46. I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.
Marc Jacobs
#47. I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#48. I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
Jermaine Dupri
#49. I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
Kay Panabaker
#50. To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.
Sonakshi Sinha
#51. I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.
Walt Disney
#52. I want to stay curled up quietly on my own little piece of nothingness.
Eva Morgan
#53. One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.
Stephen Richards
#54. I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#55. I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence.
Peyton Manning
#56. I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
Michael Palin
#57. I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.
Stella Vine
#58. I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
Bernard Hopkins
#59. I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
Alexander McQueen
#60. I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#61. The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.
Queen Latifah
#62. I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own - on my own, not through you.
Helen Oyeyemi
#63. I feel hungover even though we didn't drink, and lonely even though I'm used to being on my own
Gayle Forman
#64. I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
Gail Simmons
#65. They'd rather see me fail than succeed,
That's why I'm alone on my own with no team.
Don't need no green, though I got some to spend;
In the end ... all I really need is a friend.
Bishop Nehru
#66. If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it ... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.
Nina Conti
#67. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
Mamie Van Doren
#69. When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'
Marie Osmond
#70. People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.
Winston Graham
#71. I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#72. My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there's no shoulder here to lean on; I'm walking all on my own.
Christina Aguilera
#73. No other teammates can help you when you're on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I'm going to race on my own, I'm going to train on my own.
Shani Davis
#74. I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
River Phoenix
#75. I do not wish you much happiness
it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#76. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli
#77. I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that.. That was all wrong.
Raquel Welch
#78. My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.
Louis Sachar
#79. I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.
Tom Douglas
#80. I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
Kevin Keegan
#82. I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself.
Erin Hunter
#83. Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.
Clifford Ross
#84. My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Rachel Tucker
#85. Because here's the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you. But it can be hard when you feel ready for Happy Couplehood and you seem to have missed the train.
Lauren Graham
#86. Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.
Heidi Klum
#87. I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.
Rebecca Eaton
#88. This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.
Gene Luen Yang
#89. When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
John Terry
#90. Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Ziggy Marley
#91. I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
Marilynne Robinson
#92. I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.
Nicolas Cage
#93. Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.
Joseph Kosinski
#94. I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Charlie Weber
#95. I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.
Miranda Hart
#96. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
Harold Bloom
#97. I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton
#98. Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.
Roger Moore
#99. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.
Georgia Jagger
#100. With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
