#alone

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#alone #become #great #may #move

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#alone #family #grew #house #i

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ↗

— Sivananda

#alone #best #best way #contentment #craving

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. ↗

— Alfred Emanuel Smith

#how #matter #slice #still #thin

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#being #born #development #does #drop

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#am #bodily #done #eating #functions

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#been #i #kind #lazy #over

In the country of pain we are each alone. ↗

— May Sarton

#country #each #pain