Quotes with lock-boxes

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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John Boyle O'Reilly ''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night - I changed the lock!
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    Irish poet, journalist, author and activist (1844 - 1890)
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  • Alan Parsons Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Billy Sunday At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Susan Sarandon I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
    Susan Sarandon
    American actress and activist (1946 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Ben Foster I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bill Hicks If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Scheneier People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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  • George Herbert Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Put my ear to the door / I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days / There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside
    24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993) Condition Oakland
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Bill Klem That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Dave Barry The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Augusten Burroughs The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alan Greenspan We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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