My own Quotes · Page 58

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

— Dweezil Zappa

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

— Thom Yorke

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

— Luke Pritchard

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.

— George Groves

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I was so inspired by the Alfa 158 that I made my own version of it from scratch.

— Ant Anstead

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

— Edgar Degas

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and…

— Otto von Bismarck

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood…

— Anne McCaffrey

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That…

— Ashton Kutcher

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely,…

— Josh McDermitt

I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I…

— Melania Trump

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes…

— Emma Bell

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits…

— Jenny Offill

The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick…

— Thomas Merton

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in…

— Red Adair

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in…

— Maria Semple

I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy…

— Alan Titchmarsh

In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can…

— Meryl Streep

The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel…

— Rachel Nichols

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a…

— Sonu Nigam

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and…

— Michael K. Williams

My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be....

— Rumi

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

— Jennifer Saunders

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

— Clyde Drexler

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

— Pete Townshend

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

— Shreya Ghoshal

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

— Gustav Ejstes

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

— Henry Rollins

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

— Orson Scott Card

I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.

— Judy Greer

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

— Anna Wintour

When I got married, the idea of starting my own family was at the top of my list.

— Mayte Garcia

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

— Jane Haddam

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

— Robert Plant

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope