Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter. — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. — Clinton D. McKinnon Copy Share Image
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image