Quotes About Restriction

All the world's a cage.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.

The social world of Ibsen's plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway; the long, dark winters make for social repetition…Everyone else you know is right there, so to speak. This small-town life has moral consequences always; the players live with the threat of trouble over the most petty matters.

When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

A prison is a prison, he says. Whatever you fill the time with.

Women are not allowed truth, not allowed speaking roles, not allowed to be precise.

The normal world tries to stifle emotion with the noose of its own deadness.

Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. "It

The sky is not the limit — the ground is.

No cell phones?" Macey said as if we'd just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.

Comment pourrais-tu aimer quelq'un avec le plâtre qui t'immobilise le coeur? On t'a imposé trop de calculs pour que tu puisses aimer. Si tu aimes quelqu'un, c'est qu'on t'a mal éduqué.

I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.

We're not looking at banning all weapons.

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

Corsets are always hard to wear.

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.

I didn't have any look or any style in prison. Your footwear couldn't cost more than $50. You can't wear blue, orange, gray, any patterns, or you couldn't wear your hair down. There were just so many rules that coincided with your attire.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

I am allowed one matchbox-sized piece of cheese a week.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.