I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.
Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.
I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.
If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
