I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.
— Mauro Ranallo
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
— Maurice Gibb
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
— Matthew Pearl
I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
— Matthew Gray Gubler
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!
— Matt Prokop
I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
— Matt Damon
Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because they make millions now. Some guys are away from their kids or divorced. I'm letting them all know they aren't alone when it comes to fatherhood issues and to encourage them to make time for their kids.
— Matt Barnes
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
— Mason Cooley
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
— Marya Mannes
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.
— Mary Pilon
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
— Mary MacLane
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
— Mary Harris Jones
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
— Marvin Sapp
There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.
— Martin Rees
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
— Martin Luther
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
— Maurice Sendak
Never shop alone for your bridal dress. Take a friend and bring a camera to take a picture of you. Make sure to get a picture of the back view: that's the part of the dress most people are going to see for the longest time.
— Matthew Williamson
As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
— Matthew Macfadyen
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.
— Matthew Desmond
The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
— Matt Mullenweg
One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.
— Matt Cain
Any player over 40-50 games per season will have moments of fatigue, let alone a 22-year-old who has a lot to learn on how to control games and pace himself throughout 90 minutes.
— Massimiliano Allegri
You know, I don't walk home alone at night. If I drive into our courtyard after dark, I ask my partner to come outside with the dog to meet me. Those are, you know, basic sort of urban precautions.
— Masha Gessen
It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.
— Mary Steenburgen
Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
— Mary Oliver
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
— Mary Karr
I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
— Mary Gaitskill
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
— Mary Augusta Ward
I don't like being in houses alone.
— Martin Scorsese
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
— Martin Parr
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
— Matthew Perry
My favorite way of making films - and what has allowed me to get key scenes in 'Cartel Land' and 'City of Ghosts' - has been when I've been able to operate alone.
— Matthew Heineman
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
— Matt Roper
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
— Matt Haig
When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.
— Matt Bellamy
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.
— Masahiro Sakurai
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
— Mary Shelley
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
— Mary Douglas
I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
— Mary Ann Mobley
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.
— Martin Millar
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
