Eventually with success I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Our society is not a community but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

No phenomenon can be isolated but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated something is wrong.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world wipe out every trace of him dispossess him of his shadow drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

The building of friendship family community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country no longer supported by tribes and villages.

The more anxious isolated and time-deprived we are the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help and they on us.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels and I hope it never happens to me.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild my son.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience because you only examine your particular part.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say 'Hey mom dad you go sit on the bench.'