Quotes About Isolation

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

I don't drink anymore, I don't go up the town and I'm not interested in events and parties.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture.

Oswestry's a bit in the middle of nowhere - quite tough, and quite English, in the way border towns are.

Being in a band can be really toxic to being in a relationship, considering all the touring and everything. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

As a painfully shy kid, my fun time was locking myself away and watching movie after movie after movie. Watching a good performance, to me, was like getting a new toy.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn't really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was.