Top 265 Isolated Quotes

I’m attracted to the journeys of isolated characters.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn’t have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

I was working on ‘Harry Potter’ while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.

I’m always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That’s what interested me about ‘Children of a Lesser God.’

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

When we distinguish between Israel’s right to defend itself and settlements, then we legitimize its security needs; when we distinguish between isolated settlements and the blocs, then we legitimize the settlement blocs.

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn’t, I’d be isolated.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of ‘The Partridge Family’ was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

There’s a classic medical aphorism: ‘Listen to the patient; they’re telling you the diagnosis.’ Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

No citizen or social group can be completely isolated from politics, because policy decisions and actions affect their lives.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

I think film and television – particularly film – you are very isolated as a writer. If you’re lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.

Politics is always antagonistic and tribalistic. But social media puts us in isolated information bubbles. We’re not just disagreeing on politics. We’re disagreeing on reality in very fundamental ways.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species – often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus – occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

When I was three, I didn’t play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a ‘guitar hero’ kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.

I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I don’t have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don’t even realise that you’ve lost something: silence.

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that’s in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

If I’d been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one’s own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

I think politics and films are a great combination. Still, I have the urge in me to do really good roles. But I feel isolated at times when politicians treat me like a film star and the industry treats me like a politician.

I’ve come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over words alone. I’d rather share my pain with people.

I just felt very isolated in France, a very bureaucratic place, no space for thinking in a different way, an artist’s way.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa – particularly the ‘forgotten emergencies’ in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

I’m not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I’m a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It’s not like I’m varying my exposure.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

When we first isolated PD-1, we didn’t know what the function of this molecule would be. But while we were working on it for almost 10 years, we realized this is a very important molecule to regulate the immune system.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Web is going to become very big… The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.

I was so famous that I couldn’t leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.

I was so fortunate; in the years that I was in ‘Thrones,’ we were able to shoot in Iceland. I think some of my favourite memories would have to be isolated out there, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Temoya is a place that’s isolated from everyone. You can only concentrate on your training there. There are no distractions. You live life in a very different way. There, you learn to value life, to appreciate the things you have.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won’t be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you’re shutting yourself off from a lot of American culture if you are so completely isolated from what goes on, on popular TV? Yeah, you are!