Quotes About Isolation

Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.

When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of my phone calls.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist.

The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no electricity and no TV.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

In some cases, mobile phones have made people extremely unsocial. I don't like that.

In the Bigg Boss' house, you don't have phones, you don't have places to run away. The only options are fight or flight.