My Own Quotes

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

~ Walter Gropius

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

~ Frida Kahlo

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

~ James Altucher

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

~ Q-Tip

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

~ Donald Glover

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

~ Rob Lowe

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

~ Christina Aguilera

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

~ Corey Feldman

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

~ Norman Maccaig

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

~ Emily Brontë

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

~ Nargis Fakhri

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

~ Willie Aames

I don't listen to my own music at home.

~ Celine Dion

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

~ Selena Gómez

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

~ Anne Tyler

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

~ Suheir Hammad

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

~ Victoria Wood

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

~ Richard Cecil

I am my own woman.

~ Evita Peron

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

~ Fred Allen

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

~ Alexander The Great

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

~ Alexander Graham Bell

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

~ Zachary Levi

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

~ Xavier Becerra

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

~ Robert De Niro

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

~ Isambard K. Brunel

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

~ Asap Rocky

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

~ Colleen Atwood

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

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

~ Lily Tomlin

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

~ Jack Prelutsky

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

~ Gillian Jacobs

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

~ Francesca Annis

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

~ Francesca Annis

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

~ Marlee Matlin

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

~ Kate Hudson

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

~ Francis Ford Coppola