My own Quotes · Page 57

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

— George Ella Lyon

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

— Rumi

Every day it gets easier to look into my own eyes on the mirror and say, "I love you just the way…

— Louise Hay

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own…

— Jason Kidd

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with…

— Anita Baker

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

— Andy Stanley

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it…

— Mindy Kaling

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the…

— Terry J. Lundgren

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I…

— John Petrucci

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in…

— Lauren Oliver

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the…

— Susan Minot

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and…

— Douglas Adams

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far…

— Gloria Steinem

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by…

— Alice Hoffman

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music]…

— Asher Monroe

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a…

— Wentworth Miller

I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an…

— Robert Plant

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also…

— J. B. Smoove

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own…

— Gloria Steinem

For me professionally as well I've built an incredible business that I'm very proud of that is my own brand and that…

— Ivanka Trump

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize…

— David Foster Wallace

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

— Allison Mack

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

— Sophie Kinsella

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a…

— Andrew Marvell

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

— Hanna Rosin

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

— John Darnielle

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

— Lake Bell

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

— Marques Houston

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

— Paul Young

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

— Jamie Bell

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own…

— Jesse Harris

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

— Kirk Cameron

Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

— Anthony Hamilton

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

— Jodie Whittaker

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

— Soko