Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.
We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create