Own Quotes
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When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane Austen
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture
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Every single person is the star of their own story, which means that every single person goes through the gamut of emotional experiences that we’re trying to get on stage and tell.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
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Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.
Geoff Tate
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I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.
Jordan Rodgers
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People make their own luck.
David Liederman
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Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.
Lord Byron
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
Jane Austen
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It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.
Artemas Ward
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We've got to take care of our own business. If we don't do that, we could be sitting at home in a few weeks.
Craig Biggio
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For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
Michael Musto
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Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.
Karl Wolf
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You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.
Buck Brannaman
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.
Andrea Jaeger
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The Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one’s own.
Aisha
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It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.
Nate Dogg
