Locked Quotations

When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

I am always locked in my design studio.

What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

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?

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

We've always been involved in the Games, but this is on a completely different level. This is one area we've been locked out of in the past. It's an opportunity we've never had before.

We are a team of spurts. Eddie really came in and got us going in the second quarter. We really locked down on defense in the third quarter. I thought that was one of the best quarters of defense I've seen this team play all year.

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

What they're looking at is first of all how he came to get the gun. We believe at this point that the gun is his father's gun and it was locked in a room inside the house.

We got up in the air, and Terry Gordy looks over and sees oil coming down the wing. The oil pressure drops. It turned out the mechanic left the oil cap off. Jimmy turns the thing around and got it on the ground before the engine locked up. We were lucky we didn't catch on fire.

We knew what they were going to do in the last set, so we switched and put Ryan Campbell on him so he couldn't get to the hole. Carlson made his move and spun back to find Campbell there. We had him locked up 15 feet from the basket and he could do nothing but kick the ball out for a forced three-pointer.

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

We're a team and we go out there and we battle together, but when it comes down to it, the three games we lost, the defense let up at the end; we let them score. It felt great to go out there and really get them stopped. The offense gave us a great cushion and we locked them down.

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

We used to try to get it all done in one deal. But now we approach it more like marketing our grain crop. We don't aim to get 100% locked in at the very top of the market. We try to get some on the way up and some at the top. And then we live with how it averages out. It has served us pretty well.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

This puts in place a number of consumer protections that give people an opportunity to take a break from the treadmill of debt they get locked into with payday loans.

When I heard he was shot, ... I locked the doors.

When we saw him and got the nod that he was okay, we got back to work and got the division locked up. We'll take it from there.

Like I said (Friday), they're all locked in. They know that their backs are up against the wall and they're coming out swinging.

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

Many companies are still locked into the myths of the past.

So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.

She was a 14-year-old girl locked in a bedroom where she was psychologically tortured and sexually degraded. She was threatened in a very credible way that if she ever tried to leave he'd kill her. Who is anyone to question how someone reacts to that situation?

She said, 'You know they just might have read 'Under Siege' down there,' ... 'I don't want any phone calls from the State Department that you're locked in some jail cell down there.'

She's just been locked in all year. If you make a mistake upstairs to her, it's a home run.

She just kind of locked in. You watched the guy's finals, and 50 percent of them fell.

Mitchell was really locked in late in the game and hitting everything that was thrown at them.

Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too.

One of the things that has made Iraq such a tragedy is you've got the administration, which is kind of locked into its view; you've got Congress, which is scrambling all over the place; and politics, which has invaded this issue on all sides. The good thing here is we can stand back and assess this.

No one likes each other at the top of politics. Most of them can't stand each other; but you are locked into a situation where you have to deliver something.

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.

My doors are locked, my windows are locked. I have my house locked when I'm in it and out of it. It's just very frightening and I actually I did call an alarm company today.

My goal is to make sure that he stays locked up for the rest of his miserable life -- here or in Mexico," ()

Obviously he's not locked in at the plate. He's a guy that's come through many times for us. (Third base) is the last place you want to hit that ball.

Right now it's as if Milosevic and Clinton are locked into a bear hug and neither can turn the other loose, ... This could very well be a kind of breakthrough.

Right now, everybody's kind of locked in a little bit. They have a little routine that they're doing every day. If I have to say something I've just got to tell them, 'You're out in front,' or 'You're behind,' just little stuff. Right now those guys are in good position.

Right now, I'm taking it a day at a time, ... I know if I produce here and play well here, when the opportunities come, there'll be a job. So there will be no reason to worry about being a free agent. Hopefully, I'll be locked in here for years to come.

People who are arrested for OWI, for example, probably don't need to be locked up while they are awaiting sentencing. And there are some people who learn how to be worse in jail. Getting the right people involved in interventions will reduce the likelihood of recidivism.

My take is that these guys need challenges. Sometimes maybe they can get a little bored out there. But when they're locked in, it's like a curtain goes up and you can see it in their faces. They go from fifth gear into a sixth gear.

I was going to challenge him into turn one but, to me, it looked like he braked so early. I reacted and hit the brakes, but simply locked up the front wheels and contacted the back of his car. Basically, I couldn't decelerate like I wanted to, so it looked quite big.

I was so locked in the whole season and then we clinched, and there were some other things going on that you start looking ahead, ... By keeping myself fresh and staying healthy to get me through the end of the season you lose that little edge.

I wouldn't go as far as saying I'm locked in by any means. But I'm feeling good.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I would anticipate that in the event we don't reach an agreement within the next year, there's a strong possibility that we might be locked out again.

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

I braked early and he braked really early as well, and very hard. I lost downforce and vision, my front wheels locked right away, and I couldn't avoid him.

Catchers need to concentrate and bear down on their target lines, learn their own bodies. It's a daily thing, but it's only 10 throws. You've got to get locked in. ... Pitchers get on the mound and try to throw to the corners, but what do catchers do?

Because we have already locked in prices for two-thirds of our winter supply, we're expecting customers' bills to be about 15 percent higher than they were last winter.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

I looked over at the new elementary school and saw all the bikes out there, and none of them were locked up.

I had one situation when Jerry went out as my partner on an eviction, and the house had steel doors. The guy locked us in the building and wouldn't let us out.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

I find it shocking that in the United States of America in 1999 people can be locked up for years at a time without having the most basic opportunity to confront the evidence against him.