Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

- Andrew Cuomo

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

- Alison Moyet

'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

- James Gray

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

- John Grisham

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

- Kate Bush

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

- Katy Perry

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

- Meles Zenawi

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

- Rachel Cusk