#confined

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#always #been #both #cd #communication

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#confined #everything #humdrum #labored #limited

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

#confined #confusion #darkness #disorder #fled

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. ↗

— David Ricardo

#been #cases #cause #commodities #confined

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. ↗

— William Safire

#bloggers #bottom #confined #down #engaged

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#confined #confined space #much #pedestal #prison

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. ↗

— George Stigler

#discussions #exchange #fellow #forever #freely

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#career #comedies #confined #decided #direction

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. ↗

— Kate Millett

#animal life #been #care #confined #cultural

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#because #building #came #case #confined