Standing Alone Quotes - Page 3

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  Wavy Gravy

  Standing

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• One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Food, Cooking, Doe

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• There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  William Gaddis

  Reading, Audience, Tiresome

  William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.89, Penguin

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• Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

  Susan Sontag

  Understanding, Promise, Ease

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• How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

  Prince

  Mother, Father, Sound

  Song: When Doves Cry

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• Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

  Arthur Blank

  Passion, Unity, Way

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• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  Zach Wamp

  Military, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Animal, Play, Feet

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• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Sitting, Lines

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• First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.

  Malcolm Cowley

  New York, War, Cities

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

  Lawrence Welk

  Real, People, Musician

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

  Sarah Palin

  Media, Political, Unqualified

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Selfish, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Perception, Criticism

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  Andrew Taylor

  People, Mind Blowing, Band

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• The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

  Michael Caine

  Ovation, Towns, Talent

  "Blame Phil Collins: 'South Park' loses song Oscar to 'Tarzan'" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2000.

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• Guys standing around and talking about Spanish fly: 'You know anything about Spanish fly?'
  'No, tell me about it.'
  Well there's this girl Crazy Mary, you put some in her drink man, she, 'Haaaaaaaaaaaaah.'
  Oh yeah, that's really groovy man, Spanish fly is groovy, yeah.
  From then on, any time you see a girl: 'Wish I had some Spanish fly.'
  Go to a party see five girls standing alone: 'Boy if I had a whole jug of Spanish fly, I'd light that corner up over there. HAAAAAAH.'

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Crazy, Party

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• The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Boys, Ideas, What If

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• The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Advancement, Despotism, Humans

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

  Orson Pratt

  Zion, Hands, President

  Orson Pratt (1975). “The Orson Pratt Journals”

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• Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Leaving, Thrones, Followers

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• Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

  John Gierach

  Men, Phones, Self

  John Gierach (2008). “Fool's Paradise”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

  Rosalind Russell

  Motivational, Theatre, Acting

  "Life is a Banquet". Book by Rosalind Russell, 1977.

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• My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

  Michael Newdow

  Daughter, Mother, Needs

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

  Jimmy Carter

  Decision, Death Penalty, Moral

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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