Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful they do not excite desire.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him let alone got to work with him.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation when God and the world were alone together without man!

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand but let him learn to go alone.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone saying that I am a mad clown.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy but you are also very much alone.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

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.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold when men shall live by reason and not alone by gold.

I just broke up with my boyfriend and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

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

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best but after what he alone loves at all.

In a civilized society all crimes are likely to be sins but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

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'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

You can work on the saxophone alone but ultimately you must perform with others.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy no state alone has the ability to compete against China.