Locked Quotes - Page 14

• Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

  Lillian Smith

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

  Robert Anthony

  Goal, Next Steps, Planning

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.69, Morgan James Publishing

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• A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

  Thomas Campbell

  Men, Doors, Doe

  Thomas Campbell (2007). “My Big Toe: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics”, p.769, Lightning Strike Books

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• Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

  Michael Tippett

  Figure Skating, Figures, Extremes

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• There weren't any deleted scenes, it was just a matter of tightening stuff. I didn't have any deleted scenes in what I did as far as I know. It's very unusual on Game of Thrones for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, "Hey, we don't need this scene."

  Alex Graves

  Games, Needs, Thrones

  Source: collider.com

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• They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?” “It’s Parrish. There’s not much point.” “We have crime here, just as any other place does. Keep this door locked from now on.” “Like that’s going to stop you. All you’d have to do is give it one good kick, and – “ “Not from me, you ninny!” “I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if they find my body, you’re the one with the biggest grudge.” “It’s impossible to hold a rational conversation with you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hate, Doors, Giving

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• All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since," Doug said. "When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.

  Kate Brian

  Kids, Doors, Trying

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Ideas, Way, Locked Up

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• I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

  James Frey

  Way, Life Is, Locked Up

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• Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

  Robin Hobb

  Loneliness, Two, Saws

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.46, Spectra

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• And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.

  Julia Quinn

  Taken, Doors, Pay

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• The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name across Qhuinn's shoulders, carved into that smooth skin in the manner of the mating ritual. Never going to happen. They were destined to be best friends...which, compared to strangers, was something huge. Compared to lovers? It was the cold side of a locked door.

  J.R. Ward

  Beautiful, Doors, Names

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.28, Penguin

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• People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

  Emma Donoghue

  People, Way, Locked Up

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• If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Notebook, Writing, Cat

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Son, Phones, Doors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.833, Scholastic Inc.

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• The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sleep, Devil, Towers

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• Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

  Junot Diaz

  Years, Venus, Firsts

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Doors, House

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• As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Axes, Years, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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• Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at registration and didn't let them out again until graduation.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Morning, Kids, Tree

  Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mirrors, Doors

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.166, Penguin

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• When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Littles, Welcome, Locked Up

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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