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Quotes About Contained

I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.
~ Derren Brown
As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we're trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won't need physical containment anymore.
~ George M. Church
With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors' barely contained enthusiasm.
~ Roberto Bolano
Pemberton felt again what he'd never known with another woman— a sense of being unshackled into some limitless possibility, limitless though at the same time somehow contained within the two of them.
~ Ron Rash
And just because I'm not standing here tearing out my hair or whatever it is you'd like me to do, it doesn't mean I'm not deeply upset.' He didn't sound deeply upset.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
~ Lana Wachowski
As imoralidades do Império, bem mais contidas ou mais bem assimiladas ou ocultas, não servem como álibi para as da República, as quais parecem uma espécie de vingança dos "espíritos animais" enjaulados durante tantos anos.
~ Machado de Assis
ABSTRICTED  (ABSTRI'CTED)   part. adj.[abstrictus, Lat.] Unbound.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.
~ Charlize Theron
When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.
~ Grant Heslov
Constance did not have a bun. She didn't need one. She more or less was a bun: neat and contained, and then so tumultuous when unleashed.
~ Margaret Atwood
Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.
~ Anne Perry
We are safe now, we have captured you and we have you.
~ Anne Rice
The refugee problem is definitely a disaster for the entire region. Putin - the refugee problem in Chechnya was largely contained inside of Russia itself although there were tens of thousands of Chechens who sought refuge across Europe. Putin wasn't swayed by that issue when it came to Chechnya.
~ Fiona Hill
America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
~ Pete Hoekstra
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.
~ Loren Eiseley
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
~ Marisha Pessl
the evil is the house itself, I think. It has enchained and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.
~ Shirley Jackson
Edith's strategy became more indirect, more quiet and contained.
~ John Williams
They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side.
~ Eloisa James
I was never the kind of person who voiced my impressions or my feelings. I never told anybody what I feel. I still don't.
~ Rekha
The thing for me is that my natural state is to be reserved and not share.
~ Tom Segura
didn't want my life to be interesting ever, ever again, but I liked interesting on paper, contained between closable covers. I didn't mind this Roux person hijacking our decorous, mild fun. Just this once.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
~ Nouriel Roubini