Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Charles Dudley Warner

Isolation breeds conceit.

Charles de Gaulle

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Delia Smith

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Cai Guo-Qiang

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Coco Chanel

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Oscar Wilde

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Marianne Williamson

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Guy Finley

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.