A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary… — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But… — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
