Trapped Quotes

512 quotes by 429 authors

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. — Vera Wang
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while… — Tennessee Williams
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. — Steven Wright
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life. — Felix Dennis
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of… — Chuck Palahniuk
There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber. — Kurt Vonnegut
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple… — Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. — Bill Watterson
Iâ€™m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because Iâ€™m trapped here, but because Iâ€™d rather be with you than anywhere else… — Richard Bach
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. — Daniel Handler
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,… — Garrison Keillor
There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly… — Don DeLillo
- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this… — Kurt Vonnegut
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of… — Luigi Pirandello
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die… — Douglas Adams
I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped. — Libba Bray
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people donâ€™t know… — Tom Wolfe
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to… — Eckhart Tolle

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