Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn’t account for the time required to actually build the product. – Jennifer Pahlka
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. – Alfred Korzybski
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. – Anne Spencer
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you’re destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why. – Caroline Knapp
I hadn’t realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh’s achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned. – Bill Bryson
Sadly, I don’t think books ever sell based on your name alone – the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong! – Jane Green
I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything. – Angelina Jolie
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. – Billy Joel
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. – Brendan Behan
I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad. – Ana Ivanovic
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. – Bill Sienkiewicz
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. – Chuck Palahniuk
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing. – Che Guevara
I don’t want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people. – Benny Blanco
I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert. – Alain Robert
I didn’t ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many. – Ann Leckie
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman. – Claire Danes
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either. – Bo Derek
Well, I don’t know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time. – Alex D. Linz
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family’s asleep and I’m alone, I think about the next day’s writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page. – Athol Fugard
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. – Chesty Puller
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. – Angelina Jolie
Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. – Alva Noto
