Quotes of: My-own Keyword

Mrs. Teasdale: Your Excellency! I thought you'd left. Chicolini: [Impersonating Rufus T. Firefly] Oh, no, I no leave. Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes! Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?

Duck Soup

Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache. P.L. Travers: [sarcastically] So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image? Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?

Saving Mr. Banks

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself...

Bharati Mukherjee

I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest...

Gospel Standards

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed...

Christian Wiman

For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be ...

Humility and How to Get It

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

Carmen Dog

I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

The Gentle Spirit

So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?" "All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ...

Jake Roberts

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

John Oliver

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

Choke

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

Clockwork Prince

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.

Devil on the Cross

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

Better Off Dead

I’ve learned to lick my own foul wounds and prize the taste of ache.

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Beastly

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

City of Ashes

When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

Heber J. Grant

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ronnie Montrose