Quotes of: My-own Keyword

I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to ...

John Corbett

Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteri...

Arthur Conan Doyle

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

Kylie Bax

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Alison Lohman

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

Vincent Cassel

I don’t own a cat. My cat owns a human.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, lovi...

Angelina Jolie

I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, and her eyes locked on his. "And I wouldn't do that to you." Her bosom fell and her eyes closed. It was a long moment before he could speak. "Thank ye, ...

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist...I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.

Call Of The Tree

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.

Journals

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane." - Zane, page 400

The Rules

I am not interested in your fine calibrations of empathy or your great mission to protect the river of history. I just to live my own life, and I want to spend it having my own private fucked-up little emotions.

The River of No Return

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left that I could create.

The Magus

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

The Silver Linings Playbook

I don’t worry about identity theft, because I don’t even know who I am as a person. So if I’m not even in possession of my own identity, how can it be stolen from me?

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Caught in a terrible cycle, I was thinking about what I thought about my own thoughts, so I went to the bar where I got myself a glass of water.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community