Quotes About Inhibition

A curse on those who fear wine: it's because they have evil thoughts and they are afraid that wine will loosen their tongues.

Le besoin de sécurité asphyxie l'âme.

I didn't know if I could speak even if I tried.

I can't fix my mouth to say how I feel.

It simply became very difficult for me to write with Yoko sitting there," he explained. "If I had to think of a line I started getting very nervous. I might want to say something like 'I love you, girl,' but with Yoko watching I always felt that I had to come out with something clever and avant-garde. She would probably have loved the simple stuff, but I was scared. I'm not blaming her, I'm blaming me.

Sometimes it seemed to him he was allergic to expressing himself. Often, when he desperately wanted to say a thing, he could actually feel his windpipe closing up on him, cutting off his air.

When wine goes in strange things come out.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it. And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. So not children touch everything they see? And I!

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Most of the reason we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

Spontaneity. Freedom. The opportunity for unstudied, impulsive roving through the backlands of his mind. Which are most detrimental? Inhibition. Self-censorship. Restraint.

Her veins were never open. He heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted in puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

If women are inhibited sexually by culture, changes in the imagery promoted by the culture will bring about a change in behavior, which will in turn bring about a change in values, which will in turn usher in the revolution

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

and she is so afraid to try her French that she goes to bed hungry.

Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.