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Quotes About Isolated

All the errors of this school rest precisely on the conception that mistakes the phenomena of competition, as seen from the angle of the isolated capitalist, for the phenomena of the whole of capitalist economy.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
En medio del desolado paraje, incluso el tétrico bosque de más allá parecía un hogar acogedor.
~ Lovecraft H.P.
out·li·er -,l ( )r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample
~ Malcolm Gladwell
1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body
~ Malcolm Gladwell
To ABSTRUDE  (ABSTRU'DE)   v.a.[abstrudo, Lat.] To thrust off, or pull away.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
~ Ray Bradbury
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
~ William Warburton
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~ Edward Thorndike
I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
~ Barney Frank
I was raised in a very sheltered, narrow environment.
~ Faye Wattleton
Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jed was used to isolation. His face was like some kind of cul-de-sac. It said NO THROUGH ROAD to most people. Confronted with him, they always turned around, backed away.
~ Rupert Thomson
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
~ Bill Gates
And your eyes pass over me as if I don't exist.
~ Anne Rice
Some have suggested that in alien abductions we are dealing with some sort of mass psychosis, hysteria, or hallucination (Sagan 1993). But abductions do not resemble mass phenomena (Hall 1995). Abductees are generally individuals who have, at least before being brought in contact with other experiencers for purposes of support, been isolated from people having similar experiences.
~ John E. Mack
Everything looked strangely isolated, as if each item in the landscape had been purchased separately from a catalog.
~ Elif Batuman
The ages of isolation had their use, for they trained men for ages when they were not to be isolated.
~ bagehot walter iv
I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
~ James Herbert
My entire life, I was told I was an old soul. I never really connected with other children when I was growing up.
~ Aimee Osbourne
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
~ Kate Nash
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
~ Christina Ricci
Memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.
~ Marilynne Robinson
In similar fashion, the assumption that the texts within the pyramids were products of a dawn-land of primitive religion long served to isolate those dark columns of hieroglyphs from the living world that drew them. As Harold Hays, one of the Pyramid Texts' most acute commentators recently observed; 'the agent and event are erased, and without them there is no human history.
~ John Romer
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
~ Erykah Badu