Keyed Up Quotes

#1. Quinn keyed up a three-dimensional holovid schematic of Vega Station and its neighbors. The jump routes were represented by sparkling jagged lines between hazy spheres of local space systems.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#4. I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

Debra Messing

#5. Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

Kofi Annan

#6. I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.

Greg Rucka

#7. I've been very lucky in my life.

Joe Gold

#8. Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.

Nan Shepherd

#9. You know a whole lot about romance for a guy who spent the night standing alone by the trash.

Anthony Breznican

#10. He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself.

Bob Colacello

#11. Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. Autobiographical Interview, ed. James Conant and

Thomas S. Kuhn

#13. Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle

Josh Stern

#14. Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Alexander Chee

#15. I don't read the news. I make the news

Denrele Edun

#16. Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Robert Darnton

#17. I could live with you forever and still you would surprise me. Gabriel's Redemption

Sylvain Reynard

#18. Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority. The

Karen Armstrong

#19. Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

Jack London

#20. Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Robert Morgan

#22. The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#23. I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Will Self

#24. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Thornton T. Munger

#25. Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock - as she had learned at school.

Frank Herbert

#26. Little Britain ... ever since it first came on ... I come here a lot, we have a lot of friends here, my wife used to work with a lot of Brits, so we were always keyed into the hot shows when they first came out. So, I fell in love with Little Britain.

Paul Feig