Best Mines Quotes

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

If it’s good, it’s mine. If it’s bad, it’s a fake.

I’m willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved… I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn’t have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there’s just extraordinary beauty.

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don’t just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we’re all together and you’re mine for a night. And I’m going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish…that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, ‘I don’t want anything more’. Sixty-five years. Don’t they go by in a blink?

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can’t control – when they write lies at least – because the laws can’t really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

…I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An ‘avenging GOD’? One who created Hell for those who don’t believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I’m sorry, but… no. Wrong. You’re wrong. That’s an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don’t you get it?

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I’ve always wanted to be able to fly! That’s a dream of mine.

So I would choose to be with you, That’s if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Is it possible to get another key? I think I’ve left mine in the room.

I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have to write from my heart and my experiences, and I fully own them. Those are mine to share.

Mine’s [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don’t need to answer them.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.

I’m not a social friend of the Reagans. That’s by their choice and by mine. They don’t drink enough.

You’re kinda striding the line of what’s yours and theirs. What’s yours, what’s mine, what’s ours as creators of it and what’s yours as owners.

Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.

I’m sayin’, why spend mine when I can spend yours?

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I’m right, I’m right, I’m right. What’s in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.

In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

There’s people who don’t want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I love you in a place where there’s no space or time
I love you for my life ’cause you’re a friend of mine

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

I don’t own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.