"Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own."

-- George Best

#Strong Quotes #Loner Quotes

“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.”
“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA
“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”
“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”

Source : Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin
“Be respectful of words. They mean something.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.274, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You donâ€™t need to worry about me; I have a college education. Iâ€™m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”
“Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.”
“Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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