Strait Jacket Quotes

#1. [On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#2. The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

Emma Goldman

#3. Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

John Dewey

#4. What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute ... what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination

Meg Cabot

#6. If you'd have told me two weeks ago that one day I'd be part of a not-so-merry band of Necros seeking to exterminate a couple of other magic-born gangs, I'd have given you directions to the strait-jacket factory.

David Estes

#7. Get that strait jacket that Heidenreich had and put it on Lita!

Jerry Lawler

#8. ...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.

Gayla Drummond

#9. I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.

Derek Donais

#10. My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

Lewis Carroll

#11. (remember, I was pregnant once, and I'm on TV: Those two things combined make me an expert)

Tina Fey

#12. Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#13. I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

John Geddes