The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you. — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary… — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery 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
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
