Quotes About Isolation

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

Every musician knows your studio is like - it's a bubble for you. It's a personal space. This is where I work, where I create.

I feel most confident when I am in a dance studio alone.

I am always locked in my design studio.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.

Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.