Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wilbur

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

William Zinsser

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

William Zinsser

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

Woodrow Wilson

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

William Wordsworth

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

William Wordsworth

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

William Wordsworth

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

William Saroyan

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Penelope Cruz

I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this.

Joe Manganiello

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Aziz Ansari

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Alana Stewart

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

Dakota Johnson

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

Donald Trump

When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

Rihanna

I’m not necessarily happy being single. It’s not really that cool,

Michael Scott

What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

James Dalessandro

I get bored easily, I'm always doing something different,

Herbie Hancock

I get bored easily, but later I learned that it is OK to do something that others have done.

Tim O'Reilly

I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.

Alex Rezaev

If you live in New York City, you will never be bored for a second in your life.

John Cale

I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.

Lisa Cox

I'm OK being bored on the sidelines. If I'm sitting at practice doing nothing, then it's a good day.

Dominique Moisi

In 1968, after 30 years of full employment and economic growth, students were bored to death. Today, after 20 years of unemployment, the students of 2006 are looking for security.

Jill Sobule

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Jacqueline Woodson

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.