Skeleton Key Quotes

#1. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.

Stephen King

#2. Kane pulled a key from a piece of thread around his neck that looked just like the skeleton key Gerald had given Peter the night before, and slid it into the keyhole. "Welcome," said Kane dramatically, as he pushed the doors open, "to the complete and secret history of the Watchers.

C.A. Gray

#3. I have spent years of my life sitting in my room, creating defenses of cynicism, darkness, and bleakness. Jed's friendship is the skeleton key to my fortress. He disarms me every time.

David Levithan

#4. But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.

David Mitchell

#5. No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

Baltasar Gracian

#6. It's like the P-38 is an old skeleton key I'm trying to fit into an old padlock and when I make that connection I'll hear a click and a door will open and I'll walk through and be saved.

Matthew Quick

#7. I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

Jeff Tweedy

#8. My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood.

Anton Chekhov

#9. It's easier to help strangers. You don't know them well enough to realize they're assholes.

Michael LaRocca

#10. Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. A beverage of leisure is a serious business," Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. "There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

Jeff Phillips

#12. If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Jesse Jackson

#13. Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Bill Shuster

#14. Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#15. The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is ...

Katie Uhlaender

#16. People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.

Steve Goodier

#17. Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Gabriel Marcel

#18. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson