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Quotes About Disconnected

Père Goriot's previous owner, Brian Kennedy, had systematically underlined what seemed to be the most meaningless and disconnected sentences in the whole book. Thank God I wasn't in love with Brian Kennedy, and didn't feel any mania to decipher his thoughts.
~ Elif Batuman
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.
~ Will Arnett
I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.
~ Mark Steyn
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.
~ Ross David Burke
I had listened to my Walkman while reading Père Goriot. Père Goriot's previous owner, Brian Kennedy, had systematically underlined what seemed to be the most meaningless and disconnected sentences in the whole book. Thank God I wasn't in love with Brian Kennedy, and didn't feel any mania to decipher his thoughts.
~ Elif Batuman
I've been following Elsa, but I can't see Arendelle anymore.
~ Elise Allen
I want to care, but I don't.
~ Elizabeth Scott
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
~ Ann Landers
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
~ Richard Gere
Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
~ Emil Cioran
It's become a running joke among the public, and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.
~ Sonny Perdue
I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar.
~ Sarah Hall
My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream.
~ Sarah Manguso
Bernatha had a clockwork heart, but that heart did not run.
~ Sarah Monette
Miró el oscuro cielo a través de la ventanilla y del torbellino de copos de nieve. Se sentía desconectada. Perdida. Ojalá no lo sintiera todo tan profundamente.
~ Sarah Morgan
It's easy to avoid suffering and easier to feel disconnected from the people experiencing
~ Jon Katz
Upped but mentally disjointed.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
~ Rafael Vinoly
I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.
~ Gillian Flynn
But a dead man doesn't care what uniform he's wearing.
~ Gordon Korman
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
~ Matthew Davis
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.
~ Clive Barker
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
~ Tad Williams