Locked Quotes - Page 12

• There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.

  Ron White

  Cigar, Brands, Floats

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.

  Jacqueline Briskin

  Writing, Eight, Important

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• Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.

  Willa Gibbs

  Wall, Pain, Dark

  Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”

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• To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Men, Fool, Firsts

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• I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

  Frances Hardinge

  Telling The Truth, Hated

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

  Peggy Lipton

  Wall, Fantasy

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• If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

  Edith Konecky

  Grandma, Rocks, Doors

  Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.118, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Naked, Needs

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• Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

  David Sedaris

  Struggle, Ignorant, Useless

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, Talking, Should

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• I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

  Laila Ali

  Fun, Hero, Kids

  "Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali Give Us the Goods on American Gladiators". movieweb.com. December 31, 2007.

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• Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Cells, Years

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• It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

  Sophie Jordan

  Real, Moving, Blood

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.

  Nicole Krauss

  World, Staring, Disgusting

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

  Simon Van Booy

  Reading, Way, Rooms

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Transition

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• Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

  Steven Furtick

  Believe, Heart, Different

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.198, Multnomah

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• What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Priorities, Vision

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• Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character, Want, Instinct

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

  Pat Williams

  Mean, Vacation, Keys

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• I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

  Dave Smalley

  Thinking, People, Flavor

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Gun, What If

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Feelings, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody says. It's like falling in love or starting a company. When you're still wondering if you should get married or you're still wondering whether you should start a company that might be not the right person or the right idea. And writing is the same way. When you've locked on to the topic, you'll just write it.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. March 10, 2017.

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