Quotes About Constraint

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.

All projects are a dance between two forces, expanding to consider more ideas and shrinking to narrow things down enough to finish.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Necessity knows no law.

to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.

Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados

the piteous demand that the artist should be shut up in a flower-garden, and forbidden to peep through the hedge into the world.

because of the previous damage, it couldn't safely be done.

Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.

I absolutely hate being strapped down and buckled to my own words.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to