When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“ that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture! — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it… — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
“Why? The ease with which he manipulates words is his greatest talent. Was his difficulty a result of his torture? Something more?… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself… — Celeste Bradley Copy Share Image
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
“This is torture, torture, torture. Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened??? I'm… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture. — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” — Melissa Andrea Copy Share Image
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.” — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
“A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.” — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Probably, the greatest torture you could ever do to your heart is to let somebody go¦at the time youre loving that person… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! — Lady G Copy Share Image
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image