#lock

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#bathroom #call #child #dog #doing

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#align #another #blocks #chose #cold

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#always #door #every #figure #go

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.' ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#am #bike #boat #box #car

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

#another #any #avoid #bush #bush administration

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#brigham #campus #few #home #just

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#experience #fantasy #films #hatred #imagination