Quotes About Restraint

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.

It would be against my nature if I shouted or banged the walls.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

We've always kind of tried to keep the mystique. We don't wanna give everybody everything. You give 'em too much, it's just white noise. When we do say something, we want it to be an event. When we go out and do things, we want it to be an event and kind of keep everything else behind closed doors.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

It's not your job to be warm on the news; you can be empathetic, but you can't emote. That can be difficult sometimes - but it is my job not to cry.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.