Famous Quotes
- And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
- Bruce Nauman on Alone
- And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
- John Irving on Alone
- And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
- Chris Cornell on Alone
- And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
- And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
- Max Muller on Alone
- And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
- Olivier Martinez on Alone
- And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
- Rachel Dratch on Alone
- Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
- Larry Wilcox on Alone
- Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
- Keith Richards on Alone
- Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
- Trey Anastasio on Alone
- Artists walk alone.
- Ezra Miller on Alone
- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- Hermann Hesse on Alone
- As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
- Janet Jackson on Alone
- As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
- Julie Burchill on Alone
- As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
- As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
- Jason Schwartzman on Alone
- As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
- Nicole Richie on Alone
- As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
- Billy Joel on Alone
- As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
- Sienna Miller on Alone
- As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
- Chris Ware on Alone
- As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
- Matthew Macfadyen on Alone
- As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
- Quintilian on Alone
- As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
- Madeleine Albright on Alone
- As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.
- Elisabeth Shue on Alone
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington on Alone
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington on Alone
- At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Alone
- At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
- Boris Pasternak on Alone
- At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Alone
- Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
- John Berger on Alone
- Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
- Thomas Browne on Alone
- Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
- Marilyn Vos Savant on Alone
- Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
- Fiona Apple on Alone
- Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Alone
- Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
- Erma Bombeck on Alone
- Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
- Tom Sizemore on Alone
- Being alone is very difficult.
- Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
- James Dean on Alone
- Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
- Alice Koller on Alone
- Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
- David Hume on Alone
- Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
- John Jay Chapman on Alone
- Better be alone than in bad company.
- Thomas Fuller on Alone
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- Baltasar Gracian on Alone
- Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
- John Clayton on Alone
- Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
- George Santayana on Alone
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
- Martin Luther on Alone
- Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
- Ashley Judd on Alone
- Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
- Jonathan Sacks on Alone
- Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- Annie Dillard on Alone
- But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
- Harold Bloom on Alone
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