I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp… — Shyza Chaudhry Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
“During several centuries Clochemerle, far from the cities and trade routes, had lived in stillness and isolation. But now, at last, the… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Solitude increased my perception. But here’s the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women… — Hannah Nordhaus Copy Share Image
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not… — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think my assist numbers dropped off in Toronto with the way we were built. We played a lot of isolation basketball.… — Lou Williams Copy Share Image
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was that we… — Frankie boyle Copy Share Image
You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image