If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan I think it was the Soviet experience.

There is nothing like being left alone again to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I think we need one recognized respected public figure to make a tough blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I think Jersey stands alone and because I'm from Jersey I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end locked in your head alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I think all teenagers feel alone and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away alone and get to work.

I like being alone and I think this movie as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

We've just got to be careful - with all sports let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States I feel like if I just think about Taiwan my friends my fans I won't feel like I'm alone.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50 000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt drudgery and a life of misery.

I think sometimes if you are alone you are freer because your time is your own.

Others indeed may talk and write and fight about liberty and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

He was thinking alone and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied with which he did not doubt as with the lever for which Archimedes sought they should succeed in moving the world when some one tapped gently at his door.

I mean I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?