Quotes About Aloofness

only role. There wasn't any warmth there. If another woman showed him

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

and no real warmth existed between the two

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

He knew from long experience that nobody would try to join him. Nobody ever did. He radiated subliminal stay away signals and sane people obeyed them

The French have coined a phrase for their slipshod indifference, their way of letting things take care of themselves. They call it "je-m'en-foutisme," an attitude toward life that may be somewhat inadequately translated as "I-don't-give-a-damnism.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Only Tedium, which is a form of aloofness, and Art, which is a form of scorn, gild our [life] with a semblance of contentment.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Didn't Really Give A Rat's Ass

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

Politics is not really my thing.

Prof stood apart from his family.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Mmm," he said vaguely, trying to sound polite but disinterested.

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

Ya no siente el menor desprecio sino una inmensa indiferencia.

People always liked her from a distance. But when they got closer they realized she was just too much for them.

Monocled and effete in appearance, cold and distant in manner, he concentrated with such single-mindedness on his profession that when an aide, at the end of an all-night staff ride in East Prussia, pointed out to him the beauty of the river Pregel sparkling in the rising sun, the General gave a brief, hard look and replied, "An unimportant obstacle.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.