Locked Quotes - Page 21

• Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hurt, Xbox, Past

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• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

  Piper Kerman

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

  Gail Caldwell

  Dog, Sight, Years

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.177, Random House

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• One of the most difficult situations on which my country goes through, has to do with the political and economical aspects, but that it's because we have locked up into ourselves and forgot to help everyone else. We have forgotten about unity and solidarity. Sometimes, it's in our differences where we find that strength which compliment us to go forward.

  Monica Spear

  Country, Differences, Difficult Situations

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Vision, Way

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• Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Life, School, Doors

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• People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

  Richard Avedon

  Running, Ambition, People

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• We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Roosters, Mystery

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• I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Home, Names

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• People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

  Sean Hannity

  Dream, Country, New York

  Sean Hannity (2002). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”, p.8, Dubois Publishing

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• We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

  Jimmy Page

  Music, Moving, Past

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• You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, World, Personal Growth

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Purpose for Living”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

  Trick Daddy

  Daddy, Together, Mama

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• I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

  Mark Teixeira

  Spring, Team, Thinking

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• Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room...

  Shashi Deshpande

  Children, Men, Two

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• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Glasses

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

  Aphex Twin

  Lying, Kids, Should Have

  "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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• Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Book, Use, Littles

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• If you want to get a sensual thunderbolt then you have got to be cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc. I find that whole milk and lots of Vitamin D help.

  Ted Nugent

  Rocks, Sensual, Want

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• For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Memorable, Two

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Animal

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

  Ivan Illich

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Toil

  Ivan Illich (1982). “Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made
  may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner
  forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep
  us locked in inner conflict.

  Christopher Alexander

  Alive, May, Patterns

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

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• He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the concrete wall. Wrenching the thing open, and getting out his flashlight, he didn’t know what to expect inside—smoke? Fumes? Blood and body parts? Zsadist was sitting rigid in a backward-facing seat, his big body strapped in, both hands locked on the armrests. The Brother was staring straight ahead and not blinking. “Have we stopped moving?” he said hoarsely

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Wall, Moving

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