Trapped Quotes - Page 13

• As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

  George A. Romero

  Actors, Doe, Genre

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• But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn’t be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, America

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Theater, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Fear, Past

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• A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Freedom, Fighting, Men

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• Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

  Daniel Handler

  Hilarious, Two, Three

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• Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Punishment, Eyebrows, Clothes

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• It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Layers, Dirt

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• I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

  Libba Bray

  Wish, Want, Should

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skulls, Bird, Mind

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• We easily become trapped in the 'someday' mentality. Someday I'll have all the money I need to enjoy life. Someday I'll be able to spent more time with my family. Someday I'll have time to relax and do what i love doing.

  Nick Vujicic

  Enjoy Life, Relax, Needs

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.199, WaterBrook

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• It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.

  Joel Osteen

  Strong, Disappointment, Past

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• It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Two, Brain, Would Be

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Mad, Acting

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Nice, Fall

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Fire, Years

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Makeup, Islands, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.33, Random House

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• She keeps asking me where we're going." "Yeah," another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. "Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere." "That's not true!" "It is," he said. "I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're-" "Closed in," Michael said. "Trapped," Shane added. "Idiots," Claire finished.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Thinking, Voice

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.152, Penguin

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• For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Names, Different

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

  Jasmine Guy

  Men, Long, People

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Light, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

  Douglas Adams

  Mother, Men, Space

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.80, Del Rey

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• There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

  Don DeLillo

  Stars, Light, Shining

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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