Trapped Quotes - Page 20

• in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Divorce, Style

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• Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Mean, Sleep, Men

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• With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

  Francine Prose

  War, Army, Night

  "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

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• It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

  Bernard Darwin

  Golf, Principles, Rabbits

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• I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

  Jack White

  Trying, Needs, Records

  "Jack White Talks Third Man, White Stripes, More". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2011.

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• It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Wife, Roles, Scared

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• Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out?
  Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you?
  Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did?
  Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you?
  Has he ever threatened to hurt you?
  If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Hurt, Answers, Fists

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• The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.

  Eminem

  Rain, Men, Names

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• This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

  Richard Kadrey

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

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• I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, People, Abusive Relationship

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Work Out, Worried

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• Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

  Harlan Ellison

  Perfection, Excellence, Waking

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• Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Emotional, Law, Important

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.94, Prometheus Books

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• Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

  George R. R. Martin

  Moving, Men, Past

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3526, Bantam

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• While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Giving, May

  Source: rzim.org

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• Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

  Keanu Reeves

  Acting, Getting What You Want, Dominance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Animal, Broken

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• On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

  Boy George

  Gay, Men, Culture

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Two

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• Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, People, Despair

  Louie Giglio, Matt Redman (2011). “Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe”, p.108, David C Cook

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• You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.

  Jim Carrey

  Hate, Color, Depth

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

  Bjork

  Girl, Blood, Whales

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• Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

  Dan Poynter

  Animal, Games, License

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• For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving, Emotion, Language

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• You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Law, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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