Restrictive Quotes

Elegance is refusal.

Booker T. Washington was a very vindictive man…. Staff would have to get his permission before they married.

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.

My first diet was in the first grade! Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side.

Corsets are always hard to wear.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.

Of course I would like to be more famous. It offers more career possibilities. But then it can prove restrictive. Plus you get hassled when you go shopping.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom.

The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

I hate long pants.

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

I find clothes so constricting!