Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and… — Anne Sexton 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
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — Robertson Davies 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“. . . 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