Emotionally Closed Off Quotes & Sayings

He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew all too well. "Play for me?"
I looked at the piano hesitantly and I felt the passion start to grow back inside of me. My fingers itched to play and suddenly my body was moving towards the piano and I sat down, my posture back to where it should be, my fingers hovering over the keys ready to play a song that I hadn't heard in years.
I closed my eyes and slowly breathed in and out. And then my fingers flew across the keys, the music filling the room. The music moved me both emotionally and physically as I rocked my body to the music, putting all of me into the song. The music took me to a different place than where I was here and now. This is the melody I always seem to come back to, always finding myself lost in the notes. The song is a part of me as it tells a story. A story about loss and recovery. — Alexandria Rhodes

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line. — Marianne Williamson

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters. — J.J. Abrams

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine. — MaryJanice Davidson

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing. — Gary Oldman

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. — Rajneesh

Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them? — Warrior Doctor

Consider the sentence "He closed the door firmly." It's by no means a terrible sentence (at least it's got an active verb going for it), but ask yourself if firmly really has to be there. You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between "He closed the door" and "He slammed the door," and you'll get no argument from me . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before "He closed the door firmly?" Shouldn't this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn't firmly an extra word? Isn't it redundant? — Stephen King

She thought in exclamation points — L.M. Montgomery

Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving. — Alexander Maksik

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. — Arundhati Roy

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different. — Walter Isaacson

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life. — Rene Rivkin

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films. — Giovanni Ribisi

You're not the kind of person to just randomly fall in love. You're way too . . ."
My eyes shoot to his. "Too what?"
"Well, you know, emotionally closed off."
"I will emotionally close off every orifice in your face if you don't shut up about this right now. — Rachel Morgan

I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards. — Michael Che

You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you'll get no argument from me . . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before He closed the door firmly? Shouldn't this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn't firmly an extra word? Isn't it redundant? Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. — Stephen King

Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago. — Jeffrey Hollender

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson