Locked Box Quotes

#1. I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

Nancy Gibbs

#2. He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.

John Connolly

#3. In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

Julian Fellowes

#4. I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Mel Brooks

#5. The music has turned into a distant hysterical pounding and shrieking, like someone has a tiny Rihanna locked in a box.

Tana French

#6. Action is what makes hope a reality.

T. M. Brenner

#7. When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

Valerie June

#8. And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind.

Terry Brooks

#9. I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

Tanith Lee

#10. I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.

H.G.Wells

#11. I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Thurston Moore

#12. The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.

Michael D. O'Brien

#13. I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

James Patterson

#15. I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Success comes to those who ignore all the negative comments around and focus on their goals.

Saru Singhal

#17. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Douglas Adams

#18. I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

Gael Greene

#19. I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Scott Lynch

#20. She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak, I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks.

Nirvana

#21. My auntie reads those. They're lady porn. Nothing but cowboys who stumble upon the preacher's daughter bathing and next thing you know they're fucking under a waterfall.

Eve Dangerfield

#22. Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.

Joey Barton

#23. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Janet Malcolm

#24. Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#25. The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

Robert Gilpin

#26. Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Linda Cardellini

#27. If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone.

M.D. Arnold

#28. With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

Peter Weiss