A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.
What good in being a solitary, secret drinker? We're all drunkards together - let's leave it at that.
The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward sign of urban pollution.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.
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.
I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.
... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.
