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Isolation Quotes

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Isolation You Somewhere Poet Where

When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.

People Isolation Wave You Traveled

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Chance Isolation Think Horror Worse

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Live Society Isolation Country Own

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Home Loneliness Water Me Isolation

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Live Isolation Impact Far Away Teach

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

Isolation Think Seeing Filmmaking

Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low post or even on a short isolation - 12 feet, 15 feet from the basket - he can get to the rim. He's outstanding. He's not only a very willing passer but an outstanding passer. I think it's the best part of Josh's game.

Best Game Feet Isolation Think You

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Robert Zemeckis

Isolation Human Well Function Beings

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Mireille Guiliano

Technology People Isolation You Now

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

God Man School Me Isolation Nobody

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Science History Isolation Study

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Christopher Alexander

Nature World Isolation View You

My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

Work People Me Isolation Look Say

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.

Culture Stress Spiritual Isolation

The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?

Nicolle Wallace

People Isolation Long What If Office

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

Life World Action Game Isolation

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

War Isolation Crisis Trauma Suffer

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

World Rest Isolation Unique Find

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Car Isolation Internet Media Long

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

Isolation You Information Nobody Get

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.

Live People Suffering Isolation Diet

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Music Silence Isolation Find Write

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

Isolation Will Two Years Forecast

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