Brain Lock Quotes

#1. There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

Willie Aames

#2. There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The language of soul ... possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

Claude Brown

#4. My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.

Suzanne Collins

#5. This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Mike DeWine

#6. I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

Freddie Highmore

#7. With each replacement of parts, a car slowly becomes Chinese.

Mr. Kuniyasu

#8. The day I understand what's going on in her psychotic little brain they'll have to lock me in a psych ward.

J. Gabriel Gates

#9. Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Matthea Harvey

#11. The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

S.A. Tawks

#12. The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

Stanislav Grof

#13. A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

Roja Dove

#14. My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough.
Who is there to talk to
that wont lock me up?

Youth Lagoon

#15. I retreat to my room and lock the door. Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

S.M. Parker