Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

As a child I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there I wanted to make loads of money.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now let alone any more is well known.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone and if you make a mistake it's your mistake. If you hit a home run it's your home run.

I may be alone in this but I do sense the power of film in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am to a certain extent because of the situation but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star I say leave me alone I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame I'm in it because I like to play.

To be adult is to be alone.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it so by that fact alone I don't want to be one.

Solitude though it may be silent as light is like light the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

As a young man even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Britain relative to the U.S. is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy with people at work with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

From 18 to 22 I was alone living in L.A. with a bunch of friends partying.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes I might be a little fat you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.