#alone

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone! ↗

— Calvin Klein

#bed #get #hope #i #into

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#balance #faculties #fundamental #genius #health

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#both #god #his #i #knew

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#combined #complete #determinism #hard #human

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#been #companies #give #give me #i

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#antitrust #forbid #freak #knows #laws

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#do you know #know #like #love #to love

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#dream #interest #life #without

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#always #comes #happy #i #left