Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Billy Corgan

Everything about life makes me lonely.

C. S. Lewis

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Cecelia Ahern

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

Carrie Brownstein

I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people.

Carl Sagan

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Bill Bryson

...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Bertrand Russell

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

Matthew Shultz

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Robert Simpson

recognize which clouds are going to develop (into a hurricane), and you can't go around coating the sea every place.

Bill Engvall

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

David Goad

I think they had to do what they had to do, but it kind of clouds things.

Horst Keller

I think that the decisive question will be to discover the dynamic of the atmosphere. Why are the clouds turning in the direction that we see? Why so quickly?

Jim Jefferies

I think his head was still in the clouds from his goal.

Esther Schreiber

I do not see any dark clouds on the horizon for Microsoft. I think it's straight shooting, straight up.

Tom Finucane

I wouldn't say the sun is shining on them yet, but the clouds are parting. I see a lot of opportunity.

Fiona Apple

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds you're not at all what you seem.