Quotes About Restriction

When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that's what she wanted to wear.

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

You will be standing in that square forever. You will wear that "A" until you're dead. You consider your options. You have no options.

which had existed for 150 years, that married couples were not permitted

Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]

The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

One of the great beauties of politicians as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

may not be able

week days pent up in lath and

But slave importation became illegal in 1808.

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.

We are limited in joy, knowledge, and being, the three things people really want.

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.

When you keep people from doing things they are destined to do, they go crazy.

As a young man I couldn't travel, nobody could travel, they wouldn't give us a passport. For many years I was trying to go abroad. And then one day I read in the newspaper about a new competition for composers, and the first prize was a trip to the West. I decided I must get the first prize, so I wrote three pieces in three different styles.