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It was my own special brand of insanity that made me think the trials of Lucy's life could somehow be eased by the order of Tupperware.
— Ann Patchett
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
— Steve Toltz
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
— Jim Harrison
May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.
— John O'Donohue
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
— Anne Tyler
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.
— Si Robertson
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
— Imelda May
I can summarize my thoughts now by simply saying each must find his or her own Way because "the way" does not exist.
— Robert Anton Wilson
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
— Rick Steves
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.
— Jonathan King
Mugged by my own mother.
— Rick Riordan
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
— Maya Angelou
I'm blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
— Sophie Kinsella
I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.
— Katherine Longshore
Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
— Agatha Christie
I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.
— Keke Palmer
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.
— Christopher Lee
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
The freedom to ... regard the future as the hope and product of my own strength and not as something fashioned by some strange power from above.
— Hermann Hesse
I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.
— Hosni Mubarak
I can see what I'm shown, and hear what I'm allowed to, with my fullest understanding that I do this by God's Grace and not my own ability.
— Paul Stefaniak
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
— Mackenzie Phillips
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
— Ellen Wilkinson
By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.
— Dianne Sylvan
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
— Florence King
My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.
— Kelsey Grammer
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
— Geoffrey Canada
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
— Gunter Grass
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Bloody hell, Kitten. Never thought to be flogged by my own furniture. Do you know I saw bloomin' stars when that cracked over my nog?
— Jeaniene Frost
I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,
— Marilyn Manson
I think maybe today a poem I hope
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own gut
mostly by force — John Thomas Idlet
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own gut
mostly by force — John Thomas Idlet
I want to be defined by my own essence.
— Kathy Bates
My own life is a fairy tale story - one that has already been written by the hands of God.
— Tessa Emily Hall
I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
— Rick Derringer
All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
— Anthony Storr
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
— Thom Gunn
I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
— Vanessa Paradis
Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now
— Tim Tharp
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G.Wells
I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
— Bela Karolyi
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
— Larry Elder
My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
— Margaret Beckett
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
— Vita Sackville-West
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
— Karl Jaspers
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
— Henry David Thoreau
But I think I'm coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
— Virginia Woolf
But I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.
— Shuntaro Tanikawa
Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.
— James Cameron
I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
— George Carlin
I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
— Larry The Cable Guy
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
— Al Jarreau
Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.
— Gioconda Belli
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.
— Michel De Montaigne
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
— Krishna Das
I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
— Allen Ginsberg
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
— Dan Jenkins
I'm so very tired of being held prisoner by my own mind.
— Kathryn Perez
I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.
— Marie Helvin
I was participating in something horrible, and my only defense is that I was motivated by my own fear, which of course is no defense at all.
— Mat Johnson
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
— Dwight Yoakam
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
— Jonny Wilkinson
By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.
— C.S. Lewis
Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own.
— Katie J. Davis
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
— Moby
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
— Art Spiegelman
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
— Terry Gilliam
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards ... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
— Queen Latifah
Young foliage sweet bronze.
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume. — Tessa Rumsey
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume. — Tessa Rumsey
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
— Peter Jennings
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
— Evelyn Glennie
Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective
— Christina Baker Kline
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
— Art Garfunkel
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
— Bradford Cox
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
— Grace Zabriskie
I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.
— Dominik Garcia-Lorido
I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.
— Jessie Usher
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
— Helen Hunt