Quotes of: Solitary-confinement Keyword

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Jean de la Bruyere

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Dan Farmer

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

John C. Reilly

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

John Slattery

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

Alex Turner

In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,' through which people are subject to computer-monitored house arrest, or granting fuller surveillance and disciplinary powers and tec...

Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

Richard E. Grant

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Ruth Ozeki

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Buddha

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

Guy Ritchie

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Lynda Barry

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Francis Parkman

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Bonnie Langford

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Jenny Lawson

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Seamus Heaney

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Jodie Foster

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Ani DiFranco

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Akilnathan Logeswaran