Loner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.
-- Agnes Denes -
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
-- Albert Einstein -
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.
-- Andrea Seigel -
The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
-- Anneli Rufus -
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.
-- Anneli Rufus -
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
-- Arthur Ashe -
I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.
-- Benjamin McKenzie -
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
-- Benjamin McKenzie -
Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
-- Billy West -
I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.
-- Clea DuVall -
Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.
-- Dean Cavanagh -
Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
-- Earl Butz -
She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost
-- Eleanor Catton -
I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
-- Elizabeth Kim -
Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience. "Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. "We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one.
-- Erin Hunter -
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
-- Esther Dyson -
Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.
-- George Best -
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
-- Henry Rollins -
No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.
-- James E. Talmage -
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
-- Jane McGonigal -
In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.
-- Jennie Garth -
The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.
-- Jennifer Sky -
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
-- John Stuart Blackie -
I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.
-- Julie Anne Peters -
I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
-- Justin Timberlake -
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-- Karen Armstrong -
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.
-- Katherine Moennig -
Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
-- Keri Russell -
Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
-- Kristin Hannah -
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.
-- Louis Aragon -
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.
-- Lucille Kallen -
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.
-- Mark Vonnegut -
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
-- Martin Filler -
I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
-- Mia Wasikowska -
I was pretty much a homebody; didn`t really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
-- Michael Rosenbaum -
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
-- Mika -
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
-- Pauline Kael -
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh -
I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
-- Richard Pryor -
I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.
-- Ricky Williams -
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
-- Sarah Vowell -
I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.
-- Selma Blair -
Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.
-- Walter Schloss -
Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.
-- Wendy Cope -
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
-- William Manchester -
I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
-- Zosia Mamet -
I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.
-- Craig Gillespie -
Ronald Reagan was notably able to avoid having personal considerations dissuade him from taking decisive actions. This may have arisen in part from his career in motion pictures; it may be related to his being a bit of a loner; it may have related to his focus on those people and principles he sought to serve. What is clear is that this capacity enhanced his effectiveness. It was also a surprise to many people.
-- James M Strock -
Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.
-- Lissie -
I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.
-- Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire -
There are so many fantastic roles, but the ones that have always drawn me to them are the loners who, for whatever reason, never quite fit in and knew it and had to find their own way. I've always been drawn to that, for some reason. I've always been drawn to that sad, isolated place, but what it produces in behavior is something else, entirely. For whatever reason, I'm drawn to these people. Essentially, I think what draws me is that they are survivors against rather considerable odds.
-- Ann Dowd -
I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.
-- Gustavo Perez Firmat -
I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.
-- Tony Adams -
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
-- Jill Sobule