Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind… — Linda Jones Copy Share Image
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that… — Patrick McCabe Copy Share Image
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some… — Sarah Winnemucca Copy Share Image
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved.” — Kristen Ciccarelli Copy Share Image
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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