I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Anything is possible if you believe in yourself, said the guidance counsellor, stifling a laugh. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“Besides, aren't you dying to see our bedroom?" "Dying," said Lucy, going up the oak staircase with a stout, determined heart.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by… — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also,… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.” — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. — Ivor Novello Copy Share Image
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
