The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.