I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them,… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a… — Kenna Copy Share Image
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being aloof is something that you are the only person in your world,… with identical thoughts and you are the only true,… — Leo Felix Prabhu Copy Share Image
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It's more difficult to be a friend - even though they… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private,… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn't want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast… — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
When an attractive but ALOOF ("cool") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
