Quotes About Insulation

#1. 29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

James C. Dobson

#2. The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

Felix Dennis

#3. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler

#4. I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

Alexis Denisof

#5. The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

Terence McKenna

#6. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

#7. The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Ross Macdonald

#8. Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

Daniel Coyle

#9. I used a sophisticated method to remove sections of plastic (hammer), then carefully removed the solid foam insulation (hammer again).

Andy Weir

#10. I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

Margaret Bourke-White

#11. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Ross Macdonald

#12. Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd been mummified in wet attic insulation. In a good way.

Harlan Coben

#13. I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches.

Steve Carell

#14. The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

Hal Borland

#15. Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Robert M. Hensel

#16. All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.

Neal Shusterman

#17. The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

Donella Meadows

#19. The battery was a lithium thionyl chloride non-rechargeable. I figured that out from some subtle clues: the shape of the connection points, the thickness of the insulation, and the fact that it had "LiSOCl2 NON-RCHRG" written on it.

Andy Weir

#20. Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

Bernie Sanders

#21. Snowy, milky, chalky. A color that is the absence of color. Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.

Anthony Doerr

#22. We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

Warren Buffett

#23. Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience ...

Louise Erdrich

#24. It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#25. The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals.

Lawrence Summers

#26. Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Dean Koontz

#27. Thank God she wasn't wearing shorts. She hadn't shaved her legs in a week, theorizing that October in the mountains was pretty darn cold and she might need the extra layer of insulation.

Victoria Dahl

#28. insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.

Seth Godin

#29. The crime scene was a small burned out house, blackened support beams sticking up like rotten teeth from the piles of char and ash on the ground. The occasional curl of half-burned insulation lay like thin snakes, poisonous and waiting.

Alex Hughes

#30. Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Faith Popcorn