#alone

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. ↗

— Peter Steele

#bands #even #fourteen #last #months

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#i #keyboard #online #room #staring

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone. ↗

— Picabo Street

#bro #brother #close #feel #go

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs? ↗

— John Sweeney

#alone #bill #billion #care costs #company

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#born #conflict #knows #strength #vanquished

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#alone #am #i #i am #jealous

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#alone #centered #i #kinds #large