#my own

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#day #i #learnt #master #me

I am often the brunt of my own humor. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#brunt #humor #i #i am #my own

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#call #chick #could #feeling #hag

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. ↗

— Douglass North

#during #fly #had #i #learned

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#changes #consisted #contentment #else #existence

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward. ↗

— Alice Munro

#cover #forward #i #i do #jump

I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked. ↗

— Robert W. Wilson

#built #enjoyed #friends #helping #hi-fi

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#another #became #consequence #during #efforts