What are you going to do when you love music? You can't…

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

— Hans Zimmer

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by…

— Bill Hicks

“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of…

— Steven Erikson

When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes…

— Mike Vogel

I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so…

— Joel McHale

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along…

— Tim Conway

“That is how defense mechanisms work—in this case, denial and rationalization. We can distort reality so that we don’t feel its effects on our…

— Anonymous

As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense…

— Sean M. Carroll

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case…

— Steven Levenkron

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first…

— Marc Maron

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain…

— Andy Dick

“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

— Anita Loos

“Evolutionarily, the function of attachment has been to protect the organism from danger. The attachment figure, an older, kinder, stronger, wiser other (Bowlby, 1982),…

— Daniel J. Siegel M.D