#lone

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ↗

— Paul de Man

#alone #ashes #behind #fashion #fire

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#believe #canvas #concentrate #difficult #figure

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#busy #characters #could #create #died

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. ↗

— Judith Martin

#attached #directions #libraries #need #rest

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#because #endeavor #feel #hear #less

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. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#dirt #drudgery #else #going #hear

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#alone #forced #know #long #lose

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#build #good #good government #government #great

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #being alone #comfortable #get #i

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. ↗

— Michelangelo

#artist #best #break #contained #figures