Quotes About Disconnect

The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration.

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.

Nineteen words I counted them. That's all he had to say to me. Nineteen meaningless little words. And that's when my father died to me--right there in the driveway.

For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.

increasingly we live in a world filled with the equivalents of deadly garage-door openers, unnecessary items that offer us mild and insipid comfort at the price of a dangerous and uncomfortable planet, and at the price of any real relationship to the physical world. if you live in a suburban home and commute to a parking garage somewhere, that ten seconds of opening the garage door(manually) might be nearly the only rain you ever feel.

When I wrap a job, I disconnect with it, and I'm done, even if they said we'd shoot more next year, at this time, which is not the case at all because nobody knows what's happening.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

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

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

He had lost touch with citizens of his state, a common illness that afflicts many an elected official.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We're beginning to think it's not really our business. We're beginning to act as if it's not there any more.

Autopsy read: dead of acute peoplelessness.