I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to… — John Flanagan 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
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut.… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt 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
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to… — Ariel Dorfman 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
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added… — Aoife O'Donovan Copy Share Image
My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't… — Smokey Robinson 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
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
