Straightjacket Quotes

#1. He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.

Kelly Moran

#2. You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

Tom Upton

#3. Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape ... For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

Isabel Allende

#4. Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Erica Jong

#5. The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.

Leonora Carrington

#6. Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Richard Feynman

#8. Realize I'm done, so I close my mouth and stand there waiting for the paramedics, or whoever comes with the straightjacket.

Jandy Nelson

#9. I looked at him as if he was one Prozac away from a straightjacket.

Chrissy Peebles

#10. Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

Gary Oldman

#11. The man was a lunatic who somehow could tap into sanity when he looked her in the eye. What did that man make her? A human straightjacket?

Mary Connealy

#12. I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss

Allen Ginsberg

#13. The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#14. Does your mother make you wear a straightjacket at home?"
"Only when we've got company."
Jason questioning Timmy

John Inman

#15. When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

Cathie Linz

#16. Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Brene Brown

#17. Blankets make great traps for the clinically insane, but a straightjacket might work better.

Nicole McKay

#18. The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

Matt Dillon

#19. We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#20. You need to think!" he snapped.
"No!" I snapped back. "You need to think. Like a thief - like a girl. Like all the people that get their power and their choices taken away from them. I won't be one of them.

A.C. Gaughen

#21. Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

Dhani Jones

#22. Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Mary Daly

#23. A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Tim Heidecker

#24. If we approach medicine fearfully how much more so should we approach politics. But

Jordan M. Poss

#25. What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#26. My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away.

Patty Loveless

#27. I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. Hey whatever puts you in a good mood is fine by me. For all I care, monkeys could have danced around your classroom all hour if it made you happy."
"Don't be so dramatic Jackson. I would much rather it is zebras," I replied with a chuckle.
Jackson and Noel, Dancing with Death

Andrea Heltsley

#29. I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise ... No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.

Zooey Deschanel

#30. that can't be good "What a persistent-"
"I know." W quickly cut in before Dilmore could finish.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#31. What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

Jillian Barberie

#32. If you want to say Fuck you, West, go ahead and say it.

Robin York