Straight Jacket Quotes

#1. Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding

#2. The last thing you'd want is to look like you're one straight jacket shy of a psych ward -

Belinda Boring

#3. If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.

Gary Busey

#4. When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.

Meryl Streep

#6. Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

Criss Angel

#7. She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.

David Brooks

#8. I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Owen Wilson

#9. At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down.

Paula Hawkins

#10. We're looking at eight straight months of chaqueta."
"Chaqueta? Jacket?" Reid translated with a frown.
"No, man." Garcia grinned, fisting his hand and mimicking jacking off.

Victoria Vane

#11. Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

Lysa TerKeurst

#12. The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

Richard Feynman

#13. I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

William Golding

#14. The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#15. Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

George Brett

#16. I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

Melissa Marr

#17. Are you crying?"
"Only a little."
"Why?"
"Generalized sadness.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Race relations can be an appropriate issue ... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

David Dinkins