Quotes about Alone

“I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.”

“Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.”

“Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.”

“Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.”

“We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.”

“Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.”

“I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.”

“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”

“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”

“I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.”

“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

“The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!”

“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”

“I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.”

“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”

“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.”

“You see politicians talking about negative gearing or tax on your second home - most people I knew growing up couldn't afford the rent, let alone buying a house, or a second house.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

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

“Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.”