Insular Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

Acting is a really insular thing. — Robert Carlyle
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic… — Danny Baker
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you.… — Dwight Yoakam
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith
Iâ€™m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with… — Edmund Morris
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. — Maya Lin
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy,… — Herman Melville
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I… — Mark Leyner
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find… — Kim Raver
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a… — Howard Stringer
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular. — Catherine McCormack
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. — Arthur Boyd
I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working. — Mark Hamill
It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont… — Tom Fitton
A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it… — Li-Young Lee
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in… — Glenn Greenwald
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. — Tyler Cowen

Who Wrote These Insular Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Insular Quotes as follows: