Trapped Quotations

What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.

I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless.

A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

We believe that everybody is out and that nobody is trapped in a train,

We remain optimistic that two others trapped in the tunnel may be found alive,

When we first got back I was scared to death that he might have been trapped in there. I was so happy to hear that he didn't stay during the storm.

We would rather cancel early rather than wait and have passengers trapped at the airport.

We're getting phone calls asking for teams to rescue people still trapped in their homes,

Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

The reality is, if the cats are just trapped and removed, it's only a matter of time before more cats will be coming right across the yards again.

We had been trapped there for five days and we couldn't believe it.

When they trapped the ball, my teammates were able to get the ball to me going to the basket, and I was able to finish plays.

There are other kitchens running locally, but you know there are lots of folks who may not get the relief they need. There are so many people trapped in the city or too far away from help.

Many of these families and individuals were paying taxes through fake Social Security numbers or tax identification numbers and, every year, they feel more and more trapped because of the legal provisions adopted.

Many information workers spend a majority of their time trapped at their desk dealing with e-mail.

Many banks struggle to deal with customers. Customers often end up feeling trapped in a technology maze, where they have to press this button or that button on their phones, and can't find their way out.

She set a slow pace and I got kind of trapped into it. In the second set, I picked up the pace and that forced her to start making errors. My shots weren't so good, but with the crowd behind me, I willed myself to win.

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Most people are good people, ... Some of them are trapped in their neighborhoods and they're afraid.

Mountain men traveled in very large parties and trapped beavers in the Rocky Mountains, and every year they gathered in a rendezvous. That's where they would sell the hides to traders.

Only those trapped in the past demand boycotts. Those sorts of methods have never solved any of the world's problems.

On the one hand it's a concept album about this guy who's trapped between life and death, but on the other hand we didn't want everyone to take it so seriously. My favorite movies, books and art have a certain duality - art that you can look at in one way and take out different meanings.

I would bet anything they rue the day they got trapped into these terms like measured, patient. The signals Greenspan and others have given is that measured still the way they want to present their stance. It's now measured with a 'but,' behind it though.

I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life, ... You don't have to worry about hair and make-up. You're not trapped by your envelope.

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

Because soft materials are so porous, it's very easy for odors to become trapped inside.

I'm all right. It knocked the top down and I got trapped in the car. That's about it.

I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book. . . . I wish I liked my own writing more, but like all of us, I am trapped inside my own skin.

I find it almost sad that it happened the way it did because it was a great moment from the France team. After that, one must accept that we were trapped by someone who thought it was funny.

Four or five people were trapped on the second and third floors, and we used ladders to rescue them.

Given the strength of the market for our products, we became very supply focused . . . and in some ways we got trapped by our own success. The good news is we are in a position of considerable strength to improve our business. But it's going to take some time.

For me with all this stuff, both the horror films and thrillers like this, the most interesting thing is what goes on inside people's heads, ... The rest is just the setting. She is sort of trapped in her seat, with this guy a few inches apart watching her facial expressions for clues about what she is going to do and it is just so oppressive. Even when he lets her go to the bathroom she doesn't get long to unwind.

If someone is planning to get long today, God bless. People are trapped long and they're hoping to get out and they're hoping it recovers. Hope is not a good investment thesis.

He felt trapped in an environment where he could do nothing right. He could do nothing to make his family or his father happy.

He misspoke during the hearing. I think he just felt trapped in his family situation. He deeply regrets what happened.

We trapped their guards. We ran a double-team at them. They made some bad passes and had some turnovers. We were able to capitalize and get some easy baskets.

When he was drafted by Chicago, he was trapped behind some awfully good players and just never really got a chance. I think he appreciates the opportunity to get another chance.

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

It could be a problem for those people who are still trapped under the wreckage.

It could easily get out of control. It's so easy for somebody to get trapped and disoriented.

I thought we had a very good defensive effort. We read the passing lanes well. We trapped well. When we did steal the ball, we pushed it up the floor and scored.

It happens this time of year right before dawn. It's basically moisture that's trapped along the surface.

Later, when the coyotes came into this area, he got a license and started trapping coyotes. One year, he trapped 15 coyotes near his house. The coyotes had taken over so much of the land where there used to be rabbit, mink, fox and pheasant. He saw it as keeping the balance in nature a bit. He'd go out in the early morning and be gone eight hours. My mother would call and say, 'It's getting dark out,' and he'd come strolling in.

Jessica kicked it into the box to Rebecca. She trapped it and scored it.

Our biggest problem is the freezing cold, which is endangering the lives of those trapped in the rubble.

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

Rescuers are reaching people that are trapped and alive, and, unfortunately, they are also reaching some that are dead.

Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.

Some people are trapped in their homes, but we can't rescue them until the winds die down.

That fire just engulfed (their home), trapped them in there. It was fast, fast moving.

I won?t have to brush my teeth or floss tonight. Any food trapped in my teeth got knocked out.

I think he was a little unlucky. Not to take anything away from the winner, but he was down on the worst part of the track, and it had been raining and it was very deep down inside, and he was kind of trapped down there.

It has really helped them make a shift, ... They recognize they have the ability to live creatively and not get trapped in past perspectives.

I'm so locked in that I was thinking we had more time. I should have fouled earlier. I'm thinking we had had him (Blake) trapped in the corner, but not thinking that he's sitting there waiting to be fouled with the clock running. It was stupid on my part.

We've tried desperately to rescue 250 people trapped in a Salvation Army facility. They've been trapped in there since the flood came in. Many are on dialysis machines.

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

That was the main emphasis of the game plan. We trapped him every time he got the ball and tried to make the players around him beat us.

Mice come and they go. They may have been trapped and cleaned up. It would not be unusual to not catch one, the way they run. In order for me to identify a source, we would actually have to capture a mouse.

Why was it expending precious resources hunting for ways that allow operators to use hazardous belt air to ventilate miners' working sections instead of protecting trapped miners? For an agency with such a clear mandate as that which Congress wrote into the Mine Act -- to protect and improve miners' health and safety, we ask you to consider how MSHA could have gotten so terribly misdirected.

We were able to capitalize on our scoring opportunities. As a team we played well, we had crisp passes and trapped well.

We dug ourselves a little hole early on and never quit, never gave up. We fought back. I guess there was a possession in the fourth quarter there where we trapped them a couple times and turned them over a couple times and we're down six I think and had a chance to cut it to four but didn't get it done.

Trevor's got 2,000 people trapped in a hospital in downtown New Orleans, ... We need to figure out how to help them and get those people out.

trapped in failing schools. She reads at a fifth-grade level.

You know, the original album title was going to be 'Bad Girl Trapped in a Good Girl Body,' ... But I was talked out of it.

We know some people got trapped and we pray they are OK.

Those miners trapped a week ago Saturday might well have been watching our game against U.C.L.A., if they could have. At the very least, it gives you perspective. It brings you back to earth.

Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs,

To have a dog highly trained in collapsed structure rescue and locate live human beings trapped below rubble-- who wouldn't want to do that?

We don't have the resources to force people out of their homes. But we have made it very clear to them that when we have to take shelter, all emergency services will stop. If people are trapped or if there is a fire in the city, no help will be coming. The consequences of staying could be death.

We're not really sure how many people were trapped inside. I talked with three survivors and they told me there could be 50 to 70 people inside when the tunnel collapsed.

We're leaving the decision about what to do with the animal once it's trapped to the company we've hired.