Own Quotes
What's uniquely yours, described in your own words.
These quotes center on individuality, from treating every person as their own separate world to musicians moving on to pursue their own separate projects after a group disbands. For related lines on personal identity, see Like quotes.
Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.
When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the...
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
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.
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I...
