Kathryn Stockett Quotes

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

I never want to get stuck in the box.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

I don't like labels.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

I'm tired of the rules," I say.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.