I was minding my own business when something says to me…

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and…

— Thomas Paine

Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

— Howard Hodgkin

“You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.”

— Euginia Herlihy

I don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is…

— Anthony Yarde

“Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic”

— Benny Bellamacina

You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work…

— Norton Juster

You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own…

— Al Madrigal

Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row…

— Mr. T

I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is…

— Diane Ackerman

I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different…

— Dave Attell

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids…

— Bill Hicks

I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

— Kelly Brook

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after…

— Emo Philips

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your…

— William Gilbert