Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a… — Clinton Scollard Copy Share Image
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
