#trapped

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#life

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#apathetic #continue #homelessness #ignore #maddening

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#early #i #strapped #were #written

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chair #defies #his #king #larry

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. ↗

— Steven Wright

#department store #people #power #store #trapped

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#get #imperfect #people #perfect people #perfect world

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#always #cage #dreaming #eyes #free

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow. ↗

— David Guetta

#big #formula #i #looking #music

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #cancelled #cards #check #credit

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #compounds #dead-end #dead-end street #futility