Quotes About Isolation

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

In seeking to counter challenges such as terrorist threats, hostile state activity, or nuclear proliferation, we cannot work in isolation.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.

Everyone knew I was home-schooled. Everyone always said I was weird, and they're kind of right. And I think people can always tell that I'm a weak link. So if you are going to bully someone, I'm an easy target.

There's nothing like being a pitcher on the mound. You're by yourself. Ever since I was a little kid watching Pedro Martinez do it, night in and night out. I've always loved it.

I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

I particularly like writing on planes. You've got nothing else to do but concentrate.

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

High school's like another planet.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.