My own Quotes · Page 46

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

— Fernando Flores

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

— Juliana Hatfield

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my…

— Bret Harte

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

— Rick Springfield

As much as theyll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

— Jeffrey Donovan

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with…

— Mary Oliver

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

— Brian Kiley

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

— Samuel Rutherford

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a…

— Anthony Scaramucci

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make…

— Natasha Trethewey

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and…

— Laurence Fox

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew…

— Mark Stoermer

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as…

— Francine Prose

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own…

— Cilla Black

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the…

— Sarah Waters

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things…

— Larry Wall

I believe in preparation. As you already know we had to deal with many crews, 2 cameras. Also as I said we…

— Tommy Wiseau

There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although…

— Edmund White

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front…

— Zach Galifianakis

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on…

— Emma Watson

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended…

— Michael Bond

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by…

— Steven Spielberg

I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme…

— Orlan

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on…

— Don Drysdale

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

— Jody Hill

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

— Lydia M. Child

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

— Michel de Montaigne

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the…

— Ben Wheatley

I can't defend someone else's jokes. I can only defend my jokes, and I have to live with my own jokes.

— Jeff Ross

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

— Jonathan Lethem

I have a lot of confidence in my own ability. It's why I get frustrated when I'm not playing.

— Nicklas Bendtner

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

— Sigourney Weaver

I love that they do that. I love action and I love doing my own stunts. I love that sort of thing.

— Serinda Swan

It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it…

— Nicole Polizzi

I definitely have my own brand, and so I never, ever envision myself with anyone else's lips.

— Farrah Abraham

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

— Michael Keaton

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own…

— Roger Ross Williams

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

— Andres Segovia

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

— Albert Einstein