Lone Quotes
165 Lone quotes by 144 unique authors
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Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by…
— Jodi Picoult
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I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I…
— Steven Pinker
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon…
— Gerard Way
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it…
— Jack London
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Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt…
— Sarah Dessen
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A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
— Robin McKinley
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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
— Charles Dickens
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A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails…
— Billy Collins
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas…
— Emily Dickinson
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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
— Dave Barry
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She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like…
— Lord Byron
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A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
— Rebecca Solnit
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My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human…
— Albert Einstein
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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those…
— Leon Uris
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We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom…
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one…
— Hermann Hesse
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I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this…
— Simone Elkeles
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And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's…
— John Keats
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of…
— George Sterling
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She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Who Wrote These Lone Quotes
144 authors contributed a total of 165 Lone Quotes, led by these top contributors: