Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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.
Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
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.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.
Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.
