My own Quotes · Page 50

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

— Ernie Banks

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for…

— Monica Johnson

I'll take any opportunity to kind of put my own spin on a jazz standard.

— Laufey

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

— Bat for Lashes

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

— Jeff Bridges

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

— Amber Tamblyn

I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and…

— Anna Biller

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell…

— Marjane Satrapi

I use acting to get away from myself and to live in someone else's skin, and I do singing to get inside…

— Lindsey Haun

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but…

— Roy Harper

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have…

— Candice Millard

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring…

— James Nares

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let…

— Alanis Morissette

I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own…

— Danica Patrick

It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years…

— Jim Webb

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why…

— Isabella Rossellini

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity.…

— Christine McVie

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of…

— Jessica Maxwell

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I…

— Ben Fountain

“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There…

— Annie Dillard

The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in…

— Mickey Newbury

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

— Khalil

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

— Lynn Collins

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

— Abby Huntsman

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

— Heidi Julavits

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

— Charlie White

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

— George Duke

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

— Hannah Storm

I wanted to retire on my own terms. I wanted to leave before they kicked me out.

— Clyde Drexler

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

— Casper Van Dien

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

— Carol Vorderman

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

— Vic Mensa

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

— DJ Ashba

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

— Nas

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt