Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards."
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Jerry Garcia
Musician
"Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not."
Charles Wright
Poet
"It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past."
Otto Frank
Businessman
"There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key."
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"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane."
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"Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind."
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"[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions."
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"See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success"
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"People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it."
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"Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls."
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"Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration."
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"Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape."
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"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
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"Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there."
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"Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer."
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"My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough."
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"How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?"
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"Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries."
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"When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind."
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"You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland."
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"My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!"
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"Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold."
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"It's been very humbling and very cool to see [that at] each show I tend to see more and more kids lock onto the new lyrics and every night they start to sing louder and louder and it's just been very exciting."
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"I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet."
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