Quotes About Being Cooped Up

#1. I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

Lee Child

#2. Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

#3. With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.

Trisha Leaver

#4. I pace the room, trying to figure out a solution. She can't stay here. But I want her to stay. I can't share a bathroom with her, but I don't really want anyone else to share a bathroom with her, either. I'm a little bit selfish, apparently.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have
forget sex
because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.

Douglas Coupland

#6. A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

Artemas Ward

#7. I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

Junot Diaz

#8. When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

Arnold Palmer

#9. Anarchy is awesome.
Until it happens to you.

Sienna McQuillen

#10. Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose

Coach Taylor

#11. She was young the way an actual young person is young.

Nell Zink

#12. There was a time when, if you encountered someone with a tattoo, you could pretty much assume he was either a sailor or had, at one time or another, been in prison. There was something, it seemed, about men being cooped up together that made them want to draw on themselves.

Cuthbert Soup

#13. While you're pregnant, I suggest that you eat like you regularly do. Yes you can eat a little more, but eat healthier for as long as you can.

Constance Marie

#14. Disappointment is the end of an illusion.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#15. So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Sherwood Boehlert

#16. Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Albert Pike

#17. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.

Elizabeth George Speare

#18. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.

Conan O'Brien