Quotes of: My-own Keyword

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

John Woolman

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

All the Bright Places

One’s own history can be the greatest educator

Navigating Life's Roadways: Stories of Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Someone Knows My Name

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.

Unrequited

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Ronnie Dunn

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

Sarah Polley

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

Single Dad Laughing

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Nicholas Trandahl

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

Peter Steele

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Pete Townshend

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

Ray Liotta

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Texas Battle

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Tiffany Madison

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

Kahlil Gibran

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

Kazuo Ishiguro

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

Lou Ferrigno

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

River Phoenix