My own Quotes · Page 59

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

— Sigourney Weaver

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are…

— John Updike

I just want a man -a real, two-balled masculine guy -and there aren't many of them around, believe me. But I do…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but…

— Ben Ehrenreich

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends…

— Lauren Weisberger

I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.

— Jennifer Grey

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

— Lee Radziwill

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

— Brian K. Vaughan

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both…

— Joseph P. Kennedy III

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

— James Altucher

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States.…

— Andrew Young

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

— Steve Schirripa

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I…

— Heidi Julavits

I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense…

— Kathrine Switzer

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would…

— Ann Demeulemeester

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those…

— Hilary Kornblith

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding…

— Harold Prince

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

— Ferdinand Foch

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced.…

— Jon Secada

I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I…

— Christina Aguilera

Gosh, my own podcast, Las Culturistas,' is so unstructured and loose. There's no preparation that goes into it. It's just about plugging…

— Bowen Yang

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were…

— V. S. Pritchett

I love a massage and a bath. I don't drink - I'll have a sip, but I've never been drunk - and…

— Jennifer Lopez

I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and…

— Stanley Milgram

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of…

— George Washington

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York…

— Barbara Corcoran

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

— Juliana Harkavy

I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't…

— Manolo Blahnik

I exercise regularly and try to cook my own food.

— Claudia Kim

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation…

— Albert Einstein

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

— Charlie Kaufman

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to…

— Jeb Bush

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the…

— Jenny McCarthy

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

— Jamie Bell

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like…

— Rip Torn

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to…

— Victor Ortiz

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to…

— Patrick Stump

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact…

— Russell Hoban