Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome… — John Muir Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising. — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image