Detached Quotations

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Many who have experienced homelessness for a long time become numb. They feel they are separated from society, and lack the human touch. They don't get their hands shook, they don't get hugs, they are detached from society and it is not a positive world.

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

I get the feeling you were a little detached from this. I don't get a sense your heart was in it. It's like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility.

When they're in the boardroom, they're detached from that. They see complaints on paper.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

I will run myself out of business in Southern California if I continue to focus solely on single-family, detached suburban homes.

Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

Those who are attuned to Truth, remain balanced and detached forever.

We have lost two single family dwellings, or two homes, one detached garage and three out buildings, and we have had six injuries to firefighters. Those range from serious to minor.

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what you're taught as a medical doctor. We're supposed to be detached and logical. Maybe because I started off as a writer and then became a doctor, I'm able to integrate those two.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

We should not be so detached from reality as to treat an advisory opinion as though it were binding, and binding Palestinian obligations as though they were nonexistent. This is not a recipe for progress, it is a sure recipe for failure.

Those who serve the True Guru remain detached in the home of their own being. They abide in the Lord's Love, and constantly imbued with His Love, their minds are satisfied and fulfilled with the Lord's Essence.

When ninth-grade students are detached from the high school, they don't receive the message about receiving credits. That tends to be the time when you see a higher number of dropouts.

The only exception is if your office is a detached structure.

Fans had detached themselves. They were making jokes. It was the low point.

We've been observing gorillas for 10 years here, and we have two cases of them using detached objects as tools.

The sizes seem right. It's pretty much as big as you get without feeling detached or too far away from the people at the back of the audience. It's as big as you get while still involving the last row - isn't that what you look for in a venue? Hopefully they just have a great time. Hopefully it's just a great show. Whatever that does to different people, whether it's blowing your mind or just making you have a good time that night.

A lot of people get detached from nature by staying in their homes, offices, cars, etc.. I wanted to get in touch with nature and the natural elements of the seasons and how it affects us all.

It's about giving them an outlet, a place that's detached from their regular routine. It's an oasis in a world of turmoil. They get to let go and relax a little while. It's a sad environment (they live in.) Any light that we can bring to it, we are happy to do.

For Bush, it's a manmade political disaster on top of a natural disaster. The Bush administration could not have done much worse, it really couldn't. They appeared detached and slow to realize the seriousness of the situation.

It's a move forward, but not detached from where we were. We have a pretty identifiable sound, so we wanted to evolve it but not lose track of where we came from.

I've got a ruptured bicep femoris tendon, which is at the back of the knee and it joins onto the fibula and that's completely detached from the bone, so I'll have that surgically attached on Saturday week, so fingers crossed everything goes right.

If you remain too local, you become limited and parochial. In the other direction, you can become too detached from the people you are aiming to serve.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached action, the nature of detached action, and also the nature of forbidden action.

The economy is detached from the political noise surrounding the electoral process.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

Whoever was in charge of planning was so detached from the realities of inner city life in New Orleans ... that they couldn't conceive of the notion that they couldn't load up their SUV's, put $100 worth of gas in there, put some sparkling water and drive off to a hotel and check in with a credit card,

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.