Quotes About Confinement

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.

The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.

You ain't gotta be in jail to be doin' time.

Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

La vita è una cella un po' fuori dell'ordinario, più uno è povero più si restringono i metri quadrati a sua disposizione.

Then the doors closed throughout the hotel. Everyone locked himself in behind the double doors and each was left alone with himself and his secrets.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

As Helen, Edward and Louise grew up they had come to recognise their mother's outlook for what it was. They realised with discomfort that she was not so much egotistical as fettered – trapped within a perpetual adolescence. She moved for ever within a landscape whose only point of reference was herself.

Parliamentary prisoners were often sent to Coventry under armed guard; hence the familiar expression.

From the look of things, in five minutes every building facing the square would be locked up tighter than a Romulan clam.

protective custody

Cass, Aly, and Marco were trapped in an invisible cage. And I was on the outside.

Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap

They locked her in the cage when she started to bleed.

Factory farm animals cannot walk, run, stretch freely, or be part of a family or herd. True, many wild animals die from adverse conditions or are killed by predators; but animals kept in farms do not live for more than a fraction of their normal life span either. [The factory farm] deprives animals of their most basic natural activity, the search for food. The result is a life of utter boredom, with nothing at all to do but lie in a stall and eat.

They then blocked the passage between the compartments with a piece of plate glass and tested the dog again. The dog "jumped forward and smashed his head against the glass." The dogs began by showing symptoms such as "defecation, urination, yelping and shrieking, trembling, attacking the apparatus, and so on; but after ten or twelve days of trials dogs who were prevented from escaping shock ceased to resist.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

What a tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break each chain.