Isolate Quotes

"I`m more patient. I`m less of a recluse. I`ve been on TV for a long freaking time, and it can definitely isolate you. You get to where you only have things in common with people in the business, and kids open you up to a new world. You have something in common with just about everybody. I think I`m a better artist. Everything I`ve done since I`ve had kids is better than the stuff I did before I had kids."

"For me, my gift is music, and I would probably play a song for them and let them find something in there that they connect with, because everybody`s struggles are different. It`s easy for someone who`s not going through it to say, `Oh, well just hang in there,` but I think it`s okay to be hurt and crushed and cry and be angry and frustrated - that`s all part of it. I think people stopping you from doing that is not helpful at all. It`s important to rally around people that love you, because you tend to -- I certainly tend to isolate myself away from people so as to not worry them, but the people that love you worry anyway, so, you may as well rally yourself around them and let them be there for you `cause there`s a huge chance that they`ll need you sometime too."

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

(November 2004) I`ve never lived in a time so vexing. I just want to scream. It`s a nightmare. Bush (George W. Bush) and this administration are the worst thing that`s ever happened to America. I`m just as angry at Tony Blair. You lied to us, Tony. It was like - these idiots think they can get away with anything! I voted for Tony. He`s basically a nice guy. What happened? Is it because power does that thing to you, that you isolate yourself? It enrages me that people can just smirk their way through it.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don`t isolate the family. We don`t make rides that say, `Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.`

We're trying to isolate the supplier.

Anytime you`ve got an offense looking to spread you out, it gets your attention. They are going to ... try to isolate us one-on-one. Our guys better bring their lunch pails. It`s going to be a long day`s work.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

(People may isolate themselves even more than usual or withdraw from favorite activities. Or the opposite may be true.) A lot of times, people will try harder, will do more. They`ll spend longer hours doing something involved with the farming (thinking) if I just try harder, it`s going to turn out OK, ... One risk we run when people work longer hours is a greater chance of injury, maybe taking risks they shouldn`t take.