Insulating Quotes

#1. The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

Alan J. Heeger

#2. Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#3. I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.

Louise Andrews Kent

#4. A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Jared Diamond

#5. All she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money,

Margaret Atwood

#6. In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

George J. Mitchell

#7. New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.

E.B. White

#8. The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.

Keith Johnstone

#9. You have to gather your energy together ... conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

Walter Russell

#10. She's not extravagant or greedy, she tells herself: all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money, so that nobody and nothing could get close enough to harm her.

Margaret Atwood

#11. I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

Greg Rucka

#12. The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

Kenneth R. Miller

#13. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. You have no one to please but yourself, and you should demand others accept you for who you are. Don't let anyone tell you you're not enough.

Terri Osburn

#15. As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

Deepak Chopra

#16. It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood.

Jodi Picoult

#17. memories are the most powerful chains,

Chloe Neill

#18. Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Mark Twain

#19. I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,.

Tony Blair

#20. I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.

Mahela Jayawardene