#detach

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#easily #hold #lays #mind #really

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#another #dark #detach #film #get

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#ago #always #being #bonus #british

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#clicks #curl #detached #doll #event

[...]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken. ↗

— H.J. Brues

#life-lesson #teachings #life

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#idolatry #idols #love-disappointment #love