Geographically Isolated Quotes & Sayings

if you ask me, the best way to go about flying is to cut the strings tying you down — Renee Ahdieh

I came to recognize the landscape of my life in the lives of many women. Their stories and the places they spoke of spanned a world beyond my experience, from mill towns to suburbs, from logging camps to ethnic neighborhoods, from inner cities to Indian reservations. Few shared my place of origin or the events of my life, but many, it seems, shared my experience. Listening to their stories, I came to understand how women can be isolated by circumstances as well as by distance, and how our experiences, though geographically distinct, often translated into the same feelings. Away from the physical presence of my past, I found it easy to argue that what mattered most was the story, the truth of what we tell ourselves, the versions we pass along to our daughters. But as I stood in the living room of my rock house that afternoon, I was again reminded of the enormous power of this prairie, its silence and the whisper I made inside it. I had forgotten how easily one person can be lost here. — Judy Blunt

I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer. — Nelson Algren

Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall. — Catherynne M Valente

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING. — Jack Kerouac

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.' — Brendan Gleeson

Those of us who are going to live," Dinah Said, "have to start living by our own lights. — Neal Stephenson

The driver of the power of intelligent systems is
the knowledge the systems have about
their universe of discourse, Cyc has
not only the world's largest knowledge base,
but the best represented from a technical
point of view. — Edward Feigenbaum

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. — Honore De Balzac

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative. — Najib Razak