Quotes About Confinement

A strange sort of claustrophobia. Though he'd grown up in Fair Isle and that was smaller than Whalsay, here he felt trapped, as if it was hard to breathe.

Taylor leidis, et tema jaoks tähendab lõbusõit kruiisilaeval maapealset põrgut. Jääda laevale lõksu, keset merd koos sadade inimestega, keda sa pole endale kaaslaseks valinud ja kelle vastu sa pead olema viisakas, ilma et oleks võimalik jalga lasta. Perekonnaga on ju tegelikult sama lugu, mõtiskles ta.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I guess the White House is kind of confining.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

I hated high school. It was a prison.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.