Corseted Quotes

#1. Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

Martin Edwards

#2. How many people will die, have died, because of the wasted talents of intelligent and gifted women, forced into domestic drudgery, corseted by paternal demands, strangled by denial of opportunity?

Ayelet Waldman

#3. The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom.

Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

James Wilcox

#4. Roselyn corseted Shane in her second best bodice, causing Shane to question in gasps how women who could not heal cracked ribs managed the feat of breathing.
"Breathing," Roselyn assured her, "was overrated.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.

Rachel Hurd-Wood

#6. I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Felicia Day

#7. The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Rachel Cusk

#8. Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#9. The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.

Miguel Ruiz

#10. I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.

Ari Graynor

#11. I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

Chris Lilley

#12. As I was to learn, reproductive urges will serve as an alibi for just about anything.

Nell Zink

#13. We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Elizabeth Warren

#14. It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me."

Fred Alan Wolf

#15. Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

Mike Beebe

#16. We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and mature us into the men and women God intends to make us ... If we keep this in mind when hard times fall, it can be a real source of joy in the fire ...

Kirk Cameron

#17. When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Bono

#18. Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.

DeVon Franklin

#19. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Maya Lin

#20. It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

Cynthia Lewis

#21. She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov'd.

William Shakespeare