Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy,… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money… — Mike White 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
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people… — Charles de Lint 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
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart!… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies.… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York… — Arman Copy Share Image
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Ive come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death;… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be… — Franz Kafka 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
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
“What solitary people my family were! It amazed me that two of its members had ever gotten together to produce the others.… — Benjamin Kunkel Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image