Quotes of: Own Keyword

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Sally Kirkland

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Tom Stoppard

My meat smells like cat food. Makes me want to lick my own asshole.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

More than anything, I just want to be somebody. Somebody like my own clone.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Adam Bede

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Assassin's Quest

No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

Heresy

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

Ice

My mind soars on paper airplanes. -Bridget H

I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure

What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

I'll Give You the Sun

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.

It Is Time and Other Stories

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

I Want

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

The Invention of Wings

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Jane Eyre

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

The Radiant Woman's Handbook

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Runaway

Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.

A Room of One's Own

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Rose Sees Red

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

The Spice Box of Earth