Quotes About Detached

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.

Do you think that angels are detached?" asked

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.

The enigma of history," thus we have styled him, though the title "Father of German unity," or again, "Father of grand strategy," would have been equally just--that is, if we can associate so homely a word as "father" with that cold unemotional mind, so utterly detached from the instincts and prejudices of normal humanity, soaring to a purely intellectual atmosphere too rarified for ordinary minds to breathe.

They always say about the soldier that he's detached. That's true, for he's been in the eye of the storm, his heart has been broken, and he doesn't even know it.

You really an automaton – a calculating machine. There is something positively inhuman in you at times.

He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing.

Nije imao krvi u žilama, nije imao osje?aja, volje, požuda. Bio je glava koja govori. Njegovo stajalište nije bilo nijedno, bila su sva. Bio je preparat, složen od knjiga; bio je tipi?ni knjiški u?enjak, koji nikad nije - živio.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Nature did not seem cruel to him then, nor kind, nor dangerous, nor wise. But she was not interested, completely not interested.

Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.

There is no attempting to comprehend a prizefighter unless we are willing to recognize that he speaks with a command of the body which is as detached, subtle and comprehensive in its intelligence as any exercise of mind by such social engineers as Herman Kahn or Henry Kissinger.

I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.

As cold as cucumbers.

and I remain happy being an interested outside observer.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.