Trapped Quotes - Page 12

• A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dna, Stranger, Collections

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.155, Penguin

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• I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Glasses, Feelings, Trying

  Cornell Woolrich, Mark T. Bassett (1991). “Blues of a Lifetime: Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich”, p.16, Popular Press

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stars, Mean, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

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• I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

  Vanilla Ice

  Kind, Used, Very Good

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• I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

  Damien Hirst

  Wall, Pounds, Students

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, People, Ends

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• There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Power

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• As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cancer

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• They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Amber, Bugs, Moments

  "Slaughterhouse-Five".

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• Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Time, Hipster, Slaughterhouse Five

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• You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Years, Issues

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.44, Random House

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• I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Century, 21st Century

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

  Richard Bach

  Marriage, Hope, World

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.

  Tablo

  Sleep, Grandmother, Doors

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• I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Past, Forget

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• I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Shoes, Stardom

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• If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ideas, Giving, Important

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• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  Jack Nicholson

  Congratulations, Firsts, First Time

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Thinking, Wings

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• Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

  John C. Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

  "Interview: John C. Reilly on his animated anti-hero "Wreck-It Ralph". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

  Jeremy Renner

  Brother, Kids, People

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• I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Mountain, Body

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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