Quotes About Freedom

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Congratulations on turning 60 Now you can wear what you like No one cares, and more particularly You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.