William Lock Quotes

#1. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Watts

#2. If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.

William Irwin Thompson

#3. I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

Brenton Thwaites

#4. There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Honore De Balzac

#5. It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

William Shenstone

#7. Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself

Rapsody

#8. What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

William Shakespeare

#9. This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

William Peter Blatty

#10. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

#11. I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

William Boyd

#12. Death and life were not
Till man made up the whole,
Made lock, stock and barrel
Out of his bitter soul

William Butler Yeats

#13. Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare

#14. To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

Billy Corgan

#15. Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

William E. Simon

#16. Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.

Vasily Grossman

#17. Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

William Shakespeare

#18. Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

Cassandra Clare

#19. For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
And never shall it be more gracious.

William Shakespeare

#20. I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

William Shakespeare

#21. Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

Tom Robbins