Unsafe Environment Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

I first came to Delhi with my parents when I was 15 years old. We went to see the Red Fort, and I was walking behind my parents, and some guy who was walking along touched me inappropriately. I screamed, but he was acting so cool about it. I did not create any further scene and left.

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I don't think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we'd be torn apart limb from limb.

I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I've always looked over my shoulder, especially in my hometown.

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.