Recluse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
-- Caroline Knapp

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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
-- Daniel Day-Lewis

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I'm kind of a recluse.
-- Faye Dunaway

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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
-- Julian Casablancas

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They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
-- Mike Tyson

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My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.
-- Thomas Pynchon

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
-- Woodrow Wilson

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I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.
-- Al Jourgensen

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I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.
To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.
Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right now. It might be the message of love. Or what it means to really live. Or the role that emotion does - or does not play - in our lives. But I think ultimately, the thing I took away was the idea of surrender to God.
In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny.