Alone - Quotes & Sayings
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
Maurice SendakI absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
Diablo CodyI know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.
Klay ThompsonToday osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
Gro Harlem BrundtlandCharity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
Saint BernardYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Evelyn WaughCNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
Jason CalacanisWith production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur EricksonStill, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary BeckerIt's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Christian SlaterMy overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
William TyndaleNothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
B. R. HaydenThe day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.
Ernest LawrenceGlasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
Alex KapranosYou know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
Terry McMillanI myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
Jaan TallinnPainting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
William Morris HuntChildren need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
Tony BuzanSisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Phyllis McGinleyI've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
David KarpHe never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John FletcherJust going to Comic-Con alone, that's an unreal experience on its own. I think if everyone in the world could experience that place, it would change their outlook. It's just one big lovefest. It's pretty incredible.
Ari MillenYou can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.
Jon PolitoI adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Giuseppe VerdiI think I jump around more when I'm alone.
Nicolas CageLove alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinShow me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles BukowskiI never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda MeirWhy is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck PalahniukThe most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Chuck PalahniukRemember we're all in this alone.
Lily TomlinWhen thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter ScottIt was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
Sandra Day O'ConnorThe longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Robert Anton WilsonBetter be alone than in bad company.
Thomas FullerEven in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Robert M. PirsigI want to be alone.
Greta GarboThe capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Douglas CouplandI went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
Dick Van DykeIf you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
Joseph Gordon-LevittLoneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone.
Jonathan Van NessWhen I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Zsa Zsa GaborI seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
George MullerAbsolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha BeckI was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
Alanis MorissetteSolitude is un-American.
Erica JongI used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
Charlie PuthI think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
Cathy FreemanTo dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb ColtonMoon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell