A book is sent out into the world and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible Homer Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party have a drink and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband spending time alone which I have very little of.

I believe in capitalism for everybody not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there when you're hanging about you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone in a good way.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I can work myself up into a fearful paralyzing state of mind that can last for days weeks even months where I feel mad totally isolated and alone overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone challenging myself to run faster and higher.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

As the only girl growing up among three brothers I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played a sport to be learned a competition to join I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

You have to understand the tone of the movie because if it's supposed to be funny it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar no matter what the project is.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin I was the first person in my family to complete high school let alone go to college.

Shockingly a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

I sailboat raced I love to go out on my motorcycle alone but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.