Isolated Life Quotes

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

I don't really leave my house. I'm a very introverted person. I don't like going out. I don't like parties.

Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest of the place, out west and east from the north-south I-5 river) can sometimes feel like a half-dream, half-myth.

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

I haven't got a family. I live to work.

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.

I've always lived in my head, which is very easy to do when you live and work in a city.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person.

I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.