Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Marcello Giordani

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

Michael Assael

When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.

Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

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.

Richard Wright

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

Russell Baker

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Trudi Canavan

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Truman Capote

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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.

William Shatner

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

Robert De Niro

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

Rob Bell

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Vinessa Shaw

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

Vincent Van Gogh

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

Emile M. Cioran

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

Epictetus

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Emily Carr

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Rachel Joyce

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.