Quotes About Constraint

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

She was free in her prison on passion

I'm afraid of sympathy as if it were a collar, tightening.

Precision can be suffocating

origin: it is narrowing!

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion, and

Tell you what I don't like about a place so goddamned orderly like this. As an artist . . . it's the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes—like coffins.

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

In my ordinary evening costume I took up the room of three men at least. In my present dress, when it was held close about me, no man could have passed through the narrowest spaces more easily than I.

Freedom is only necessity understood.

Your whole life, you had to fit it onto one sheet of paper. There was a black line around the edge of the sheet, a border, and if you wrote outside the line then your application would not be valid. They only gave you enough space to write down the very saddest things that had happened to you. That was the worst part. Because if you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?

That which must not, can not be.

it was still constrained by regulation

Was mich so unruhig macht, ist die Unfähigkeit, mich zu beschränken oder, wie mein Agent Zohnerer sagen würde, zu konzentrieren.

There is an obvious difference between someone who works within the technical limitations of his time which are beyond his control and someone who accepts without thinking limitations which are entirely within his own power to set aside.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs. She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Most men are prisoners at best, who some strong habit every drag about like chain and ball.

If an eagle be imprisoned on the back of a coin, and the coin tossed into the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!