Trap Quotes - page 2

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty)
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. View quote
Al Goldstein
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. View quote
Helen Dunmore
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there. View quote
Leo Kottke
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't. View quote
Valerie Solanas
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. View quote
Bruce Lee
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die. View quote
Robert Jordan
Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. (Peter Sellers)
[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation - that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing. View quote
Lucy Liu
I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out. View quote
Thom Yorke
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. View quote
Omar Bradley
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. View quote
Elliott Smith
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. View quote
Arundhati Roy
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here. View quote
Kim Novak
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap. (L. Ron Hubbard)
I'm a leading man trapped inside a bad guy's body. View quote
Michael Madsen
This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We seem to be trapped in an episode of One Life to Waste. It's all very dull. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body. View quote
Eddie Izzard