Own Quotes

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I can't give up my own identity.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.