Isolation Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (I) Quotes

The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

- Louise Brooks

(on Rudolf Valentino) That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`s posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation.

- James Mason

(On being strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer for The Jacket (2005)) "Those situations are very challenging, emotionally and psychologically, to find yourself in a confined space like that. I thought it would be interesting. It was very painful and I kind of encouraged that pain. I spent time in an isolation tank -- lots of time -- and I would let them leave me in the jacket and leave me in the drawer for a while."

- Adrien Brody

There`s a real purity in New Zealand that doesn`t exist in the states. It`s actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It`s a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

- Elijah Wood

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

- Randy Harrison

(on Rudolf Valentino) That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`s posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation.

- James Mason

The only place I`ve felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There`s something in the water there that connects me to that place. There`s also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I`ve never been able to shake.

- Jessica Lange

I may move from everywhere and spend two or three years in total isolation. I like being alone a lot. I enjoy that more than anything.

- Julie Delpy

It`s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can`t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

- Aimee Mann

It is very much a character piece and very much about relationships. A lot of the themes in the film are about isolation and love, with all the characters isolated in some way.

- Andy Serkis

I`d say for myself personally, the lowest point was probably a couple of weeks into the captivity after a week of isolation, ... Just prior to our Red Cross visit may have been the hardest time.

- Christopher Stone

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

- Louise Brooks

Listening to the audio is made immensely easier if you use a good pair of isolation headsets. And you need to use them all the time.

- Martha Smith

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

- Robert A. Heinlein

I rent houses in LA when I`m filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There`s nowhere to go, there`s nowhere to be with people. I`m not a beach bunny.

- Kathleen Turner

On her role Kate in My Sister`s Keeper (2009): There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it`s shameful. Shaving my head was the least I could do for Kate to experience the degree of her isolation and outcast from a `normal` healthy life. It is like balancing between two realities

- Sofia Vassilieva

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

- Robert Morgan

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

- Kofi Annan

Not only are they capable of learning the material, but they are capable of approaching the subject from a creative and more open-minded perspective. It allows them to study not just in isolation but look for contemporary examples and similarities.

- Michael Cook

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

- Elfriede Jelinek

The European elite has got to wake up and realize it has contributed to this malaise by acting in isolation and in a distant way.

- Peter Mandelson

`The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.` This caption from Carlos Castaneda is written across the bottom of a painting of a nude man, who balances precariously on an overhead beam. The caption could serve as the motto of much of Woody`s work, both his figures and his landscapes. If his panoramic landscapes sweep away to a distant horizon and leave you with a heart-stopping sense of your own solitude, his nude figures expose the raw existential isolation at the very core of the human condition.

- William Peterson

Isolation is a dream killer.

- Al Joaquin

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

- Alba Quinones

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

- Ali Aoun

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

- Allen Jackson

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

- Allen Merritt

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

- Amy Beaner

The isolation from any whose interests are the same as mine, the constant, inevitable mixing with persons whose influence will tend in the opposite direction-this is a serious drawback.

- Andrew Lo

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

- Andrew McLaughlin

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

- Andrew Stuckey

I`m pretty confident that I can take anyone off of the dribble. Coach drew some plays up for me to get isolation and I attacked. I was trying to get the lead back for us.

- Barbara Ross

The best way of ensuring that you don`t get infected with something like this, in the absence of an effective vaccine, would be isolation,

- Baris Cetinok

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

- Victor Hugo

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

- Alfred Korzybski

The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time.

- Senator John Kerry