#lone

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#begins #finishes #genius #great #labor

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#alone #annihilation #any #believing #belongs

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. ↗

— Kiri Te Kanawa

#any #attention #find #home #i

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #being #being alone #book #came

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. ↗

— Paul Kane

#computer #desk #get #into #isolated

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone. ↗

— Richard Karn

#everybody #get #hard #paper #plastic

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#alone #also #because #built #create

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#anything #attitude #been #changes #clones

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ↗

— Chamera Sampson

#chamerasampson #pain #dreams

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#alone #anybody #being #being alone #care