Quotes About Torture Devices

#1. How precisely, had a arrived at this? He was taking orders from a spinster, willingly submitting himself to her medieval torture devices. And she wasn't even naked.
-Bram's thoughts

Tessa Dare

#2. Shut up. You don't have to buy a pair of shoes just because you tried them on. They may look great sitting on the shelf, but that doesn't mean they won't feel like medieval torture devices on your feet once you wear them around for a few days. It's the same thing with me. (Lisa)

Cherrie Lynn

#3. Girls moved around in football huddles, the way they always do, wearing lots of makeup and spaghetti-strap tops and brightly coloured trousers and shoes that looked like torture devices.

Rick Riordan

#4. Point shoes are torture devices.

Natalie Portman

#5. So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Karen Chance

#6. Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Natalie Portman

#7. In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are.

Keshni Kashyap

#8. One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

Katharine Graham

#9. I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

Kevin Pietersen

#10. Gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius

Eoin Colfer

#11. It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#12. We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves.

Paulo Coelho

#14. That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Stanley Hauerwas

#16. That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.

Bill Vaughan

#17. Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you eat.

Salman Rushdie

#18. Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

#19. Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Lord Byron

#20. Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind

Olufemi Olumide