Insulated Quotes

#1. We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

Vance Havner

#2. Like our padded cell?" He poked the insulated walls. "It's like living in a vagina.

Michael Crichton

#3. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Arnold Palmer

#4. We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

Peter Landesman

#5. I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

Benazir Bhutto

#6. It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

Morgan Freeman

#7. We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Dorothy Day

#8. I loved the sound of the snow. It was calm and echoey at the same time, and the world felt a safer place being insulated by it. My

Alan Cumming

#9. For the first time he became aware of the profound silence of the place, insulated by stone and metal from the noise of the street outside. It gave the mosque a sympathetic air, as if it could speak but chose instead to listen.

G. Willow Wilson

#10. State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

#11. Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.

Louise Penny

#12. We survivors face life's challenges with strength and courage, and defeat is never an option. We are insulated by the Grace of God, for we are His faithful.

Robert Palasciano

#13. The American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

Rachel Maddow

#14. When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.

Jonah Hill

#15. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#16. Bad stuff happens sometimes and it happens to people we care about. You can't live life insulated because you are scared of getting too close.

Jay Crownover

#17. The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.

Lady Gaga

#18. Dana's window? More like her snow globe, Janice thought. She pictured Dana standing in a tiny glass-enclosed world, snow gently falling around her. Her world could be shaken but never broken. She was far too insulated.

Lynn Steward

#19. Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

Jaron Lanier

#20. This isolation was key to Farber's early success. Insulated from the spotlights of public scrutiny, he worked on a small, obscure piece of the puzzle. Leukemia was an orphan disease, abandoned by internists, who had no drugs to offer for it, and by surgeons, who could not possibly operate on blood.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#21. It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.

Virginia Brown

#22. You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.

John Francis Daley

#23. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

Aldous Huxley

#24. A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.

Noah Emmerich

#25. Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

Thomas Sowell

#26. Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

Tess Gerritsen

#27. Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

Anita Hill

#28. Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

Marco Rubio

#29. My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

James Buchan

#30. I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

Seth Rogen

#31. We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

Jane Eisner

#32. If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.

Charles Lindbergh

#33. But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this - we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." - Whewell: "Bridgewater Treatise".

Charles Darwin

#34. Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people you love and become an insulated wack job.

Kristen Tracy

#35. Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.

Robert A. Caro

#36. Winter in Wisconsin is the ideal time to avoid someone because our garments grow ever larger, ever thicker, and we go about the frozen world insulated beneath knit caps and mittens, our feet clad in mukluks or boots.

Nickolas Butler

#37. Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Daniel Akaka

#38. Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#39. I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.

Jimmy Smits

#40. Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.

Shirley Temple

#41. I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Amory Lovins

#42. We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

Thomas Sowell

#43. To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy.

Michael Ventura

#44. was holding a large, insulated lunch sack.

Cory Putman Oakes

#45. Janis believed that groups are especially likely to suffer from groupthink if they are cohesive, have highly directive leadership, and are insulated from experts.

Cass R. Sunstein

#46. Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

Barry O'Sullivan

#47. I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Mark Haddon

#48. Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

Sandra Day O'Connor