Insulation Quotes

• Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

  Faith Popcorn

  Home, Popcorn, Protection

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.33, BookBaby

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• I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

  Steve Carell

  Anchorman, Guy, Cotton Candy

  "Fictional character: Brick Tamland". "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

  Lawrence Summers

  Availability, Individual, Private Insurance

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• Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

  Louise Erdrich

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• Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Wall, Lying, Mind

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• Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Signals, Certain

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• Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

  Ken Yeang

  Opportunity, Air, Space

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

  Warren Buffett

  Future, Cutting, Trying

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

  Hal Borland

  Winter, Names, Bird

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• I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Independent, Self

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• The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Book, Past

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• People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed draws hostility because of its power, its insulation from democratic accountability, its lack of transparency, and because of its historical and structural connections to finance.

  Gerald Epstein

  America, People, Accountability

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  Alexis Denisof

  College, Class, House

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Writing, Sleep, Doors

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.330, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes. And more electric air and ground-source heat pumps, drawing warmth from the outside world to heat the indoors. Better insulation, smarter homes, and more efficient heating can help us cut our energy demand.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Technology

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• The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Book, Language

  Ross Macdonald (1996). “The Underground Man”, Vintage

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

  Jim Butcher

  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

  Terence McKenna

  Luxury, Mind Blowing, Blowing It

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• To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.

  Michael J. Fox

  Mean, Long, People

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• Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Military, Hype, Principles

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